Conceptions of harmful groups: Some correlates of group descriptions in three cultures.

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Interviewed 653 adult residents in 3 communities (Boulder, Colorado, USA; Wellington, New Zealand; and Kyoto, Japan) to ascertain their ideas about groups harmful to the respective societies. The 3 samples of respondents tended to identify similar kinds of groups (i.e., establishment, ideological extremists, legal offenders, and antiestablishment groups) and to attribute similar characteristics to them (i.e., rigid, subversive, destructive, and slovenly and immature, respectively); religious and ethnic minorities were rarely mentioned. Respondents who considered a particular type of group harmful tended to exaggerate the same distinctive negative characteristics assigned by respondents who did not regard it as harmful. To some extent, a respondent's designation of a group as harmful depended on its apparent possession of characteristics antithetical to his own liberal or conservative values. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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