ABSTRACT
A second open question is the relationship between perceiver motivation and
perceiver experience in creating own group biases. Computationally speak-
ing, one possibility is that they operate as simple main effects in an OGB.
That is, it could be that the magnitude of an OGB is simply the summation
of the recognition advantage afforded by the perceivers’ differential
experience with the target groups added to the perceivers’ differential
motivation to individuate in-versus outgroup members. In terms of process,
this would mean the two processes were unrelated.