Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intergroup Processes (Blackwell Handbooks of Social Psychology)

This volume will provide an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes. The volume is divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications. Provides an authoritative, state of the art overview of the field of intergroup processes. Divided into nine major sections on cognition, motivation, emotion, communication and social influence, changing intergroup relations, social comparison, self-identity, methods and applications. Written by leading researchers in the field. Referenced throughout and include post-chapter annotated bibliographies so readers can access original research articles in order to further their study. Now available in full text online via xreferplus, the award-winning reference library on the web from xrefer. For more information, visit (http://www.xreferplus.com) www.xreferplus.com Frontmatter 2 Halftitle 2 Inside Cover 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Series Editors’ Preface 9 Preface 11 Acknowledgments 14 PART I: Sociocognitive Processes 15 CHAPTER ONE - The Root of all Evil in Intergroup Relations? Unearthing the Categorization Process 16 CHAPTER TWO - Stereotypes: Content, Structures, Processes, and Context 35 CHAPTER THREE - Category Dynamics and the Modification of Outgroup Stereotypes 58 CHAPTER FOUR - Developmental and Socialization Influences on Intergroup Bias 78 PART II: Motivation 99 CHAPTER FIVE - Social Orientations in the Minimal Group Paradigm 100 CHAPTER SIX - Aversive Discrimination 123 CHAPTER SEVEN - The Social Identity Perspective in Intergroup Relations: Theories, Themes, and Controversies 144 CHAPTER EIGHT - Affect as a Cause of Intergroup Bias 164 PART III: Prejudice 184 CHAPTER NINE - Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: Examination of the Relationship between Measures of Intergroup Bias 185 CHAPTER TEN - Classic and Contemporary Analyses of Racial Prejudice 208 CHAPTER ELEVEN - Sexism: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors 228 CHAPTER TWELVE - Psychological Consequences of Devalued Identities 248 PART IV: Language and Influence 268 CHAPTER THIRTEEN - How Language Contributes to Persistence of Stereotypes as well as other, more general, Intergroup Issues 269 CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Social Influence in an Intergroup Context 289 PART V: Social Comparison 309 CHAPTER FIFTEEN - The Social Psychology of Minority–Majority Relations 310 CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The Impact of Relative Group Status: Affective, Perceptual and Behavioral Consequences 331 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Social Justice 351 PART VI: Cultural Influence 372 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Culture and its Implications for Intergroup Behavior 373 CHAPTER NINETEEN - Acculturation 392 PART VII: Changing Intergroup Relations 413 CHAPTER TWENTY - Strategic Collective Action: Social Psychology and Social Change 414 CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - Trust and Intergroup Negotiation 436 CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - Toward Reduction of Prejudice: Intergroup Contact and Social Categorization 456 PART VIII: Applications 478 CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup Relations 479 CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - Addressing and Redressing Discrimination: Affirmative Action in Social Psychological Perspective 499 CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - Intergroup Relations and National and International Relations 518 Index 537