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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Pandareus

Xenofoben zijn zeer waarschijnlijk een ondersoort op zich, het is een wezenlijke kenmerk van extreem-rechts en heeft geen kloten van de Schoof te maken met Vlaming zijn.

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Interessant vraagstuk eigenlijk.

Als je echt geïnteresseerd bent in de vraagstuk, in Wikipedia staan bronvermeldingen naar het gevoerde onderzoek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_and_out-group

Some may wonder why in-group favoritism takes place, even in arbitrarily assigned groups where group members have nothing in common other than the group to which they were assigned. Research points to unconscious decision making processes that takes place at the neurological level, where in-group favoritism and out-group bias occurs very early in perception. This process can begin by simply viewing a person's face.[9] Research indicates that individuals are faster and more accurate at recognizing faces of ingroup vs outgroup members.[10] For example, researchers in a cross-race recognition study recorded blood oxygenation level-dependent signal (BOLD) activity from black and white participants while they viewed and attempted to remember pictures of unfamiliar black faces, white faces and objects.[11] They found that participants in this study exhibited greater activity in the Fusiform face area (FFA), an area of the fusiform gyrus located in the inferior temporal cortex of the brain linked to object and face recognition, when viewing same race faces compared to other race faces.[11] Lower activity in the FFA reflects a failure to encode outgroup members at the individual level rather than the categorical level, which comes at the expense of encoding individuating information.[12][13][14] This suggests out-group or unfamiliar faces may not be “faces” with the same intensity as in-group faces.[15] Prior research has also shown that the devaluation and dehumanization of outgroup members is exacerbated when the initial encoding and configural processing of an outgroup face is impeded.[16] So not only does this initial encoding process dehumanize outgroup members, it also contributes to a homogeneity effect, whereby outgroup members are perceived as more similar to each other than ingroup members.[17]