jcolag’s Twitter Archive—№ 8,369

People overestimate groups they find threatening – when ‘sizing up’ others, bias sneaks in theconversation.com/people-overestimate-groups-they-find-threatening-when-sizing-up-others-bias-sneaks-in-184357 Psychologists call this feeling – that groups hold different values and worldviews from the mainstream, thereby jeopardizing the status quo – “symbolic threat.”