A rethinking of homogeneity as the baseline used to study diversity
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 06:51
in Psychology & Sociology
When people work in socially homogeneous groups, they overestimate their own contributions to the group's success, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT scholar. In fact, in some cases such "self-serving bias" occurs to a degree about five times as great in homogeneous groups as in ethnically diverse groups.