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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Psychology, Social > Prejudice > Xenophobia
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychology > Psychology, Social > Prejudice > Xenophobia
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Social Behavior > Prejudice > Xenophobia
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Social Behavior > Social Discrimination > Xenophobia

Preferred term

Xenophobia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Fear of Strangers
  • Phobia, Strangers
  • Strangers Phobia

Scope note

  • Intense or irrational dislike or fear of anything that is strange or foreign, particularly of people who are strangers or foreigners. It is an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population that includes attitudes, prejudices and behavior that reject, exclude or vilify persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity.

History note

  • 2015

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D065806

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