Group-Focused Enmity. Longitudinal study of the years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008 und 2010 (panel)

The aim of the project was to analyze the scale and development of the group-focused enmity syndrome over time in the Federal Republic of Germany and to explain its sociological and socialpsychological concepts:
- To which extent do people question the dignity of outnumbered groups through pejorative and ostracize attitudes as well as discriminatory and violent behavior?
- How does group-focused enmity change over time and are these changes associated with developments in society?
- Are the elements of group-focused enmity somehow connected to each other?
- What may explain the hostility towards those groups and how do such mentalities and behaviors evolve, become solid and spread?
- How would societal and political measures have to be in order to successfully prevent group-focused enmity?
There are factors associated with group-focused enmity on all levels from macro (contextual, social structures and conditions), through meso (e.g. relations between groups) to micro (including generalized ideologies and values and individual characteristics and opinions).