Unlearning Fear of Out-Group Others

9 Pages Posted: 30 Oct 2009 Last revised: 17 Nov 2009

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Terry A. Maroney

Vanderbilt University - Law School

Abstract

In this brief Comment, Maroney offers a perspective based in the scientific study of fear and social-group judgment. She discusses research showing that humans display heightened, persistent fear responses to "outgroup" faces, and suggests ways in which such research might inform our assessment of intergroup conflict resolution.

Comment responsive to Douglas H. Yarn & Gregory Todd Jones, A Biological Approach to Understanding Resistance to Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation in Group Conflict, 72 Law & Contemp. Probs. 63 (2009).

Keywords: emotions, evolutionary biology, racial bias

Suggested Citation

Maroney, Terry A., Unlearning Fear of Out-Group Others. Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 72, p. 83, 2009, Vanderbilt Public Law Research Paper No. 09-28, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1494604

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