From Prejudice to Intergroup Emotions: Differentiated Reactions to Social Groups - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841690473 ISBN 13: 9781841690476

Publisher: Psychology Press, 2002

Synopsis

The theories or programs of research described in the chapters of this book move beyond the traditional evaluation model of prejudice, drawing on a broad range of theoretical ancestry to develop models of why, when, and how differentiated reactions to groups arise, and what their consequences might be. The chapters have in common a re-focusing of interest on emotion as a theoretical base for understanding differentiated reactions to, and differentiated behaviors toward, social groups. The contributions also share a focus on specific interactional and structural relations among groups as a source of these differentiated emotional reactions. The chapters in the volume thus reflect a theoretical shift from an earlier emphasis on knowledge about ingroups and outgroups to a new perspective on prejudice in which socially-grounded emotional differentiation becomes a basis for social regulation.

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Review:

""Mackie and Smith have assembled an impressive line-up of leading scholars who share and interest in affective and emotional dimensions of intergroup phenomena. This book is a timely and quite original integration of diverse strands of research that address the 'hot' dimension of intergroup behavior--a dimension that has until recently taken the back seat to an emphasis on cognitive processes and structures. By bringing this work together, Mackie and Smith have done the field a great service in setting a clear agenda for this new emphasis in the social psychology of intergroup behavior..""
-Michael A. Hogg, University of Queensland

About this edition

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1841690473
• ISBN 13: 9781841690476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Mackie Diane M., Smith Eliot R.