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Social Cognition and Prejudice
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What is the term for the tendency to attribute positive characteristics to members of one's own group and negative characteristics to members of other groups?
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Stereotyping
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Stereotyping is the tendency to attribute certain characteristics to a group of people based on their membership in that group, regardless of whether or not those characteristics are actually true of all members of the group.