an unjustifiable (and usually negative) attitude toward a group and its members. Prejudice generally involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings, and a predisposition to discriminatory action.

• Discrimination

• prejudice

• stereotype

• scapegoat theory

a generalized (sometimes accurate but often overgeneralized) belief about a group of people.

• Prejudice

• discrimination

• stereotype

• scapegoat theory

in social psychology, unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members.

• stereotype

• prejudice

• scapegoat theory

• discrimination

the tendency for people to believe the world is just, and that people therefore get what they deserve and deserve what they get.

• just-world phenomenon

• In-group bias

• out-group bias

• other-race effect

"us"—people with whom we share a common identity.

• outgroup

• ingroup

• peeps

• other-race effect

"them"—those perceived as different or apart from our ingroup.

• outgroup

• ingroup

• peeps

• other-race effect

the tendency to favor our own group.

• just-world phenomenon

• other-race effect

• outgroup bias

• ingroup bias

the theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame.

• Just-world phenomenon

• scapegoat theory

• other-race effect

• outgroup bias

the tendency to recall faces of one's own race more accurately than faces of other races. Also called the cross-race effect and the own-race bias.

• scapegoat theory

• just-world phenomenon

• other-race effect

• ingroup bias