Outgroup Quotes

“Outgroups mocking the ingroup is a weapon of the weak, lessening the sting of subordination. But when an ingroup mocks an outgroup, it solidifies negative stereotypes and reifies the hierarchy.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky

“Once individuals are identified as belonging to an outgroup, there seems to be no limit to he human capacity for cruelty.”
― Malcolm Potts, Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World

“Once individuals are identified as belonging to an outgroup, there seems to be no limit to the human capacity for cruelty.”
― Malcolm Potts, Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World

“…we are our most prosocial concerning in-group morality when our rapid, implicit emotions and intuitions dominate, but are most prosocial concerning out-group morality when cognition holds sway.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst