Monthly Archives: July 13, 2016

Battling Prejudice with the Contact Hypothesis

• July 13, 2016
• Team Hypothesizes
• Business, Social
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Contact Hypothesis

According to this hypothesis, if people in conflict are brought together then they will begin to understand each other better and the conflict will be resolved. In effect, the rules of social psychology dictate that increasing contact between different people will help reduce prejudice towards an out

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Attract the Right People Using the Repulsion Hypothesis

• July 13, 2016
• Team Hypothesizes
• Social
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Repulsion Hypothesis

According to popular psychological theories, we are most attracted to people who share similar attitudes with us. While we can surely get along with those whose attitudes vary a little, but we will be completely repulsed by those whose attitudes are extremely different from ours. When we make frien

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