Intergroup Attitudes and Relations in Childhood Through Adulthood

by Levy, Sheri R.; Killen, Melanie

• ISBN13: 9780195189742
• ISBN10: 0195189744
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

* Winner of Honorable Mention Award for the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize competition from SSPSI * This edited volume captures an exciting new trend in research on intergroup attitudes and relations, which concerns how individuals make judgments, and interact with individuals from different group categories, broadly defined in terms of gender, race, age, culture, religion, sexual orientation, and body type. This new approach is an integrative perspective, one which draws on theory and research in the areas of developmental and social psychology. Throughout human history, intergroup conflict has often served as the basis for societal conflict, strife, and tension. Over the past several decades, individual and group mobility has enabled individuals to interact with a wider range of people from different backgrounds than ever before. On the one hand, this level of societal heterogeneity contributes to intergroup conflict. On the other hand, the experience of such heterogeneity has also reduced stereotypes, and increased an understanding of others' perspectives and experiences. Where does it begin? When do children acquire stereotypes about the other? What are the sources of influence, and how does change come about? To provide a deeper understanding of the origins, stability, and reduction of intergroup conflict, scholars in this volume report on current, cutting edge theory and new research findings. Progress in the area of intergroup attitudes relies on continued advances in both the understanding of the origins and the trajectory of intergroup conflict and harmony (as historically studied by developmental psychologists) and the understanding of contexts and conditions that contribute to positive and negative intergroup attitudes and relations (as historically studied by social psychologists). Recent social and developmental psychology research clarifies the multifaceted nature of prejudice and the need for an interdisciplinary approach to addressing prejudice. The recent blossoming of research on the integration of developmental and social psychology represented in this volume will appeal to scholars and students in the areas of developmental psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, education, social neuroscience, law, business, and political science.

Table of Contents

Intergroup attitudes and relations in childhood through adulthood : an introduction	p. 3
The formation of intergroup attitudes and relationships
Children's subjective identification with social groups	p. 19
Peer group rejection and children's intergropu prejudice	p. 32
The development of subjective group dynamics	p. 47
Gender stereotyping and the prejudice in young children : a developmental intergroup perspective	p. 66
The development of intergroup social cognition : early emergence, implicit nature, and sensitivity to group status	p. 87
Social evaluation and reasoning about intergroup attitudes and relationships
Intergroup attitudes and reasoning about social exclusion in majority and minority children in Spain	p. 105
Explicit judgments and implicit bias : a developmental perspective	p. 126
A social-development perspective on lay theories and intergroup relations	p. 146
Multiculturalism and group evaluations among minority and majority groups	p. 157
The multifaceted nature of sexual prejudice : how adolescents reason about sexual orientation and sexual prejudice	p. 173
Fostering change in intergroup attitudes and relationships
An integrative approach to changing children's intergroup attitudes	p. 191
The common in-group identity model : applications to children and adults	p. 204
A mutual acculturation model for understanding and undermining prejudice among adolescents	p. 220
The role of intergroup contact in predicting children's interethnic attitudes : evidence from meta-analytic and field studies	p. 236
Intergroup name-calling and conditions for creating assertive bystanders	p. 249
Author index	p. 261
Subject index	p. 271
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