Ethnocentrism

Boris Bizumic is a Senior Lecturer in psychology at the Research School of Psychology, the Australian National University. His research expertise is in social, personality, and political psychology. He has published widely in the areas of ethnocentrism, prejudice, personality, attitudes, cross-cultural research, and scale construction.

Introduction
1. The history and context of study
2. The concept of ethnocentrism
3. The causes of ethnocentrism: fear and self- aggrandisement
4. The causes of ethnocentrism: social factors, biology, and evolution
5. The consequences of ethnocentrism
6. Integrating the causes and consequences
7. Ethnocentrism in psychology