Germany, March 5 -- Project Id: 125684
Description: Project description
Globalisation is challenging diversity
Globalisation is leading societies to become increasingly diverse regarding ethnicity and religion, habits, ideals, and beliefs. While diversity offers great opportunities, it also poses great challenges. The human tendency to derogate out-groups and minority groups threatens peace and cooperation in diversifying societies. The EU-funded CEC project will provide novel explanations to the formation of negative attitudes and stereotypes about out-groups and minorities. These phenomena arise as natural by-products of innocent cognitive processes and the structure of the external information ecology. The project argues that people a...