Moving matters: Ethnocentric behavior decreases when societal mobility rises
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 13:44
in Psychology & Sociology
Increased mobility may help people to treat each other as individuals rather than as members of a defined social group, new research suggests. The work show that mobility counteracts the tendency of populations to become more ethnocentric -- or prone to favor members of their own ethnic, tribal or national group while being hostile to other groups -- over time.