The Use of Group Membership to Provide Social Respect Produces

question 115

Multiple Choice

The use of group membership to provide social respect produces an unfortunate outcome because we may:

• A)inflate the negative aspects of our ingroup and,at the same time,devalue outgroups.
• B)come to think that our own group is better than groups to which we don't belong.
• C)start to view members of outgroups as superior to members of our group.
• D)start to prejudice members of our ingroup and inflate the positive aspects of outgroups.

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