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Outgroup Avoidance

Outgroup Avoidance is a psychological construct that refers to the tendency of individuals to actively distance themselves from members of social groups to which they do not belong, typically driven by perceived differences, stereotypes, or intergroup threat.

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2017–2026

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How, When, and Why Bad Apples Spoil the Barrel: Negative Group Members and Dysfunctional Groups

Will Felps, Terence R. Mitchell, Eliza Byington · Research in Organizational Behavior · 2006 · 394 citations

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Intergroup Contact and Pluralistic Ignorance.

J. Nicole Shelton, Jennifer A. Richeson · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2005 · 378 citations

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No one in my group can be below the group's average: A robust positivity bias in favor of anonymous peers.

Yechiel Klar, Eilath E. Giladi · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1997 · 234 citations

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How Can Intergroup Interaction Be Bad If Intergroup Contact Is Good? Exploring and Reconciling an Apparent Paradox in the Science of Intergroup Relations

Cara C. MacInnis, Elizabeth Page‐Gould · Perspectives on Psychological Science · 2015 · 217 citations · Full text

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Out‐group trust, intergroup anxiety, and out‐group attitude as mediators of the effect of imagined intergroup contact on intergroup behavioral tendencies

Rhiannon N. Turner, Keon West, Zara Christie · Journal of Applied Social Psychology · 2013 · 153 citations

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Authors

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  1. MH
    Miles Hewstone

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 334 citations

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  2. FK
    Fiona Kate Barlow

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    2 publications · 182 citations

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  3. CC
    Cara C. MacInnis

    Brock University, Canada

    2 publications · 241 citations

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  4. KW
    Keon West

    Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 230 citations

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  5. GH
    Gordon Hodson

    Brock University, Canada

    2 publications · 65 citations

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Institutions

65

  1. The University of Queensland

    Brisbane, Australia

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    541 citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    691 citations

  3. University of East Anglia

    Norwich, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    201 citations

  4. Brock University

    Saint Catharines, Canada

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    130 citations

  5. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    201 citations

  6. Dokuz Eylül University

    Izmir, Türkiye

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  7. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  8. Hamburg Institute for Social Research

    Hamburg, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    22 citations

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Venues

  1. British Journal of Social Psychology

    4 publications · 292 citations

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  2. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

    GPIR · 4 publications · 153 citations

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  3. European Journal of Social Psychology

    EJSP · 3 publications · 107 citations

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  4. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    3 publications · 658 citations

    3

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  5. Evolution and Human Behavior

    2 publications · 31 citations

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