What attitudes towards outgroups improves

A realistic assessment of our own social group can help improve our attitude towards other groups. This is shown by a new study by the University Hospital of Würzburg. We are us, and others are exactly that - other. The feeling of belonging to a particular group that is clearly different from other groups is probably a human trait that we all share. Associated with this are usually equally clear notions about how others differ from us: 1b are all nerds, according to 1a; women are rubbish at parking, men say; Spaniards are never on time, Germans believe. How such prejudices - or to put it more neutrally - this form of bias can be influenced has now been investigated by a team of neuroscientists from Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland. This study was the responsibility of Grit Hein, Professor of Translational Social Neuroscience at the Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital of Würzburg, and Philippe Tobler, Professor of Neuroeconomics and Social Neuroscience at the University of Zurich.