Rupert Brown & Sam Gaertner 
Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology 
Intergroup Processes

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.

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Series Editors’ Preface.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Sociocognitive Processes.

1.The Root of all Evil in Intergroup Relations? Unearthing the
Categorization Process. (Penelope Oakes).

2. Stereotypes: Content, Structures, Processes, and Context.
(Don Operatio and Susan T. Fiske).

3. Category Dynamics and the Modification of Outgroup
Stereotypes. (Myron Rothbart).

4. Developmental and Socialization Influences on Intergroup
Bias. (Frances E. Aboud and Maria Amato).

Part II: Motivation.

5. Social Orientations in the Minimal Group Paradigm. (Richard
Y. Bourhis and André Gagnon).

6. Aversive Discrimination. (Amélie Mummendey and Sabine
Otten).

7.The Social Identity Perspective in Intergroup Relations:
Theories, Themes and Controversies. (John C. Turner and Katherine
J. Reynolds).

8. Affect as a Cause of Intergroup Bias. (David Wilder and
Andrew F. Simon).

Part III: Prejudice.

9. Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: Examination of the
Relationship between Measures of Intergroup Bias. (John F. Dovidio,
Kerry Kawakami, and Kelly R. Beach).

10. Classic and Contemporary Analysis of Racial Prejudice.
(Patricia G. Devine, E. Ashby Plant, and Irene V. Blair).

11. Sexism: Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviours. (Janet K. Swim
and Bernadette Campbell).

12. Psychological Consequences of Devalued Identities. (Jennifer
Crocker and Diane M. Quinn).

Part IV: Language and Influence.

13. How Language Contributes to Persistence of Stereotypes as
well as other, more general, Intergroup Issues. (Klaus Fiedler and
Jeannette Schmid).

14. Social Influence in an Intergroup Context. (Diane M. Mackie
and Crystal L. Wright).

Part V: Social Comparison.

15. The Social Psychology of Minority-Majority Relations. (Bernd
Simon, Birgit Aufderheide, and Claudia Kampmeier).

16. The Impact of Relative Group Status: Affective, Perceptual
and Behavioural Consequences. (Naomi Ellemers and Manuela
Barreto.

17. Social Justice. Tom R. Tyler).

Part VI: Cultural Influence.

18. Culture and its Implications for Intergroup Behaviour.
(Harry C. Triandis and David Trafimow).

19. Acculturation. (Karmela Liebkind).

Part VII: Changing Intergroup Relations.

20. Strategic Collective Action. Social Psychology and Social
Change. (Stephen C. Wright).

21.Trust and Intergroup Negotiation. (Roderick M. Kramer and
Peter J. Carnevale).

22. Toward Reduction of Prejudice. Intergroup Contact and Social
Categorization. (Marilynn B. Brewer and Samuel L Gaertner).

Part VIII: Applications.

23. When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup
Relations. (Janet W. Schofield and Rebecca Eurich-Fulcer).

24. Addressing and Redressing Discrimination: Affirmative Action
in Social Psychological Perspective. (Faye J. Crosby, Bernardo M.
Ferdman, and Blanche R. Wingate).

25. Intergroup Relations and National and International
Relations. (Thomas F. Pettigrew).

Index.

Mengenai Pengarang

Rupert Brown is Professor of Social Psychology at the
University of Kent. He has written widely in the field of group and
intergroup processes, his publications including Group
Processes (Blackwell, 2000) and Prejudice (Blackwell,
1995).

Sam Gaertner is Professor of Social Psychology at the
University of Delaware. He has published numerous articles on
intergroup relations and has recently complete the volume
Reducing Intergroup Bias (with J. Dovidio, 2000). His study
of racism among ‘well-intentioned’ people won the Gordon Allport
intergroup relations prize.