Men serve as the primary targets and agents of intergroup prejudice
Evidence
In sum, the research detailed in this section has provided an abundance of evidence suggesting that when arbitrary-set out-group discrimination occurs, it is primarily men who serve as the targets of this discrimination. We now turn to research examining the agent side of intergroup prejudice. We intend to demonstrate that it is primarily men who fill this role but qualify this statement with the expectation that women will also exhibit prejudice toward out-group men, but that this prejudice reflects a distinct underlying motivation that differs from the primary motives of men. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1233
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
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- Men serve as both primary agents and targets of racial discrimination (similarity 0.88)
- Prejudice-as-favoritism is gender-neutral but aggression targets men specifically (similarity 0.88)
- Prejudice’s targets and agents differ systematically along gender lines (similarity 0.88)
- Male intrasexual competition drives both perpetration and targeting of ethnic prejudice (similarity 0.87)
- Sexual selection makes men primary targets and agents of intergroup aggression. (similarity 0.85)
- Intergroup discrimination targets subordinate males more than subordinate females (similarity 0.85)
- Men and women hold prejudice toward out-group men for different evolutionary reasons (similarity 0.84)
- Intergroup aggression targets outgroup men while incorporating outgroup women (similarity 0.84)
- Women are not immune from intergroup prejudice despite lower average levels (similarity 0.84)
- Men express more dominance-oriented racism and violent intergroup competition than women (similarity 0.83)
- Males do not target outgroup females because females are contested resources, not competitors (similarity 0.82)
- Men and women express prejudice through different evolved strategies, fear versus aggression (similarity 0.82)
- Men’s out-group bias requires perceived fighting ability, not just dominance motives. (similarity 0.82)
- Prejudice psychology splits by gender-specific threat and function. (similarity 0.82)