A Common Ingroup Identity: A Categorization-Based Approach for Reducing Intergroup Bias

One direct or indirect benet of exploring the intricacies of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination is the potential to learn how to reduce, eliminate, or reverse the processes that initiate and maintain these manifestations of intergroup conict. Although psychologists have learned much about the intricacies of these phenomena, current events compellingly demonstrate that researchers still have much to learn about reducing intergroup hostility.