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Stereotypes and prejudice : essential readings

"There is perhaps no topic that has engaged the interest of social psychologists as that of stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Researchers have studied stereotypes and prejudice toward African Americans, women, the elderly, the mentally ill, clinically obese people, homosexuals, the physically handicapped, and individuals with AIDS, to name but a few. Interest in studying stereotyping and prejudice comes both from its theoretical importance as a basic process of person perception, and also from its immense practical importance. As societies are becoming more ethnically diverse, people from different cultures are increasingly coming into contact with each other, with even greater opportunities for stereotypes and prejudice to operate. This book contains a collection of classic and contemporary readings that have contributed to our understanding of stereotypes and prejudice from a social-psychological perspective. The selected readings all make an important theoretical contribution, but have also been chosen with an eye on their accessibility and appeal to students. The volume also includes an overall review of the current state of knowledge in the field, discussion questions, and a list of relevant references. It will be ideal for courses on prejudice"--Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2000
Psychology Press, Philadelphia, PA, ©2000
Educational tools (form)
xii, 490 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780863775888, 9780863775895, 0863775888, 0863775896
42823720
1. Conceptualizing stereotypes and prejudice. The nature of prejudice / Gordon W. Allport
Social categorization : cognitions, values and groups / Henri Tajfel and Joseph P. Forgas
Stereotypes as individual and collective representations / Charles Stangor and Mark Schaller. 2. Measuring stereotypes and prejudice. Are racial stereotypes really fading? : the Princeton trilogy revisited / Patricia G. Devine and Andrew J. Elliott
Racial ambivalence and American value conflict : correlational and priming studies of dual cognition structures / Irwin Katz and R. Glen Hass
Category and stereotype activation : is prejudice inevitable? / Lorella Lepore and Rupert Brown. 3. How do stereotypes develop? Gender stereotypes stem from the distribution of women and men into social roles / Alice H. Eagly and Valerie J. Steffen
Illusory correlation in interpersonal perception : a cognitive basis of stereotypic judgments / David L. Hamilton and Robert K. Gifford
Prejudice as self-image maintenance : affirming the truth through derogating others / Steven Fein and Steven J. Spencer
Language use in intergroup contexts : the linguistic intergroup bias / Anne Maass [and others]. 4. Why are stereotypes maintained even when they are inaccurate? A hypothesis-confirming bias in labeling effects / John M. Darley and Paget H. Gross
The nonverbal mediation of self-fulfilling prophecies in interracial interaction / Carl O. Word, Mark P. Zanna, and Joel Cooper
Compensating for stigma : obese and nonobese women's reactions to being visible / Carol T. Miller [and others]. 5. When do we use stereotypes and prejudice? Stereotypes as judgmental heuristics : evidence of circadian variations in discrimination / Galen V. Bodenhausen
Social dominance orientation : a personality variable predicting social and political attitudes / Felicia Pratto [and others]
The aversive form of racism / Samuel L. Gaertner and John F. Dovidio
Self-directed versus other-directed affect as a consequence of prejudice-related discrepancies / Margo J. Monteith, Patricia G. Devine, and Julia R. Zuwerink. 6. The impact of stereotypes and prejudice. Perceived intragroup homogeneity in minority-majority contexts / Bernd Simon and Rupert Brown
Social science research on trial : use of sex stereotyping research in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins / Susan T. Friske [and others]
Social stigma : the affective consequences of attributional ambiguity / Jennifer Crocker [and others]
Stereotype threat and the intellectual text performance of African Americans / Claude M. Steele and Joshua Aronson. 7. Improving intergroup perceptions and behavior. Contact and categorization : social psychological interventions to change intergroup relations / Miles Hewstone
Social categorization and behavioral episodes : a cognitive analysis of the effects of intergroup contact / Myron Rothbart and Oliver P. John
How does cooperation reduce intergroup bias? / Samuel L. Gartner [and others]. Appendix. How to read a journal article in social psychology / Christian H. Jordan and Mark P. Zanna