According to ___ theory, wariness of outgroup members—and even the propensity to take hostile actions against them—was so essential to human’s survival in earlier epochs that nature favored those who engaged in intergroup conflict over those who were pacifistic.
a. scapegoat
b. social identity
c. evolutionary
d. normative
e. realistic group conflict
c. evolutionary
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