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person-positivity bias: a standalone construct

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Social psychology

individual people are evaluated more favorably than the groups or impersonal objects they belong to.

In social psychology, person-positivity bias refers to individual people are evaluated more favorably than the groups or impersonal objects they belong to. This meaning comes from Sears (1983) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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Sears, D. O. (1983). The person-positivity bias. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44(2), 233-250. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.44.2.233

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