Intergroup Cognition and Intergroup Behavior

by Sedikides, Constantine; Schopler, John; Insko, Chester A.; Insko, Chester

• ISBN13: 9780805820553
• ISBN10: 0805820558
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Social psychology has maintained a keen interest over the years in issues related to intergroup behavior, such as ingroup favoritism and discrimination. The field has also been preoccupied with ways to reduce prejudice and discrimination. Intergroup contact has been offered as the main mechanism for prejudice and discrimination reduction. In the last 15 years, the social cognitive perspective has been applied to the study of intergroup relations. Theoretical advances have been made regarding such issues as the representation of information about ingroup and outgroup members, the structural properties of stereotypes, the relation between cognitive representation and judgment, and the ways in which cognition, effect, and motivation interactively influence the perception, judgment, and memory of ingroup and outgroup members. The first volume in this new series, this book seeks to bring the above two traditions together. Focusing on the interplay between cognition and behavior in intergroup settings, it addresses four general questions: * How does intergroup cognition (perceptions, judgments, and memories) influence intergroup behavior (ingroup favoritism and discrimination)? * How does intergroup behavior subsequently change intergroup cognition? * What is the mediational role of effect, motivational processes, and social context? * How effective can change in intergroup cognition be in altering intergroup behavior? This volume focuses not on a specific theory but rather on an approach. This approach is the interface between intergroup cognition and intergroup behavior. The various contributors are leading investigators in these areas and share the belief that the field has reached a level of maturity where it can start asking the hard questions regarding the complex and multifaceted ways in which intergroup cognition and behavior are related. The investigators do not just summarize their work. Instead, they connect aspects of their work to the theme of the volume and integrate their work with existing approaches in the relevant literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Constantine Sedikides
John Schopler
Chester A. Insko
I INTERGROUP COGNITION AND INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES	1	(44)
1 Parsimony and Pluralism in the Psychological Study of Intergroup Processes	3	(24)
Mark Schaller
Michelle Ceynar Rosell
Charles H. Asp
2 Categorical and Dynamic Groups: Implications for Social Perception and Intergroup Behavior	27	(18)
David Wilder
Andrew F. Simon
II INTERINDIVIDUAL VERSUS INTERGROUP COGNITION AND BEHAVIOR	45	(76)
3 Perceiving Social Groups: The Importance of the Entitativity Continuum	47	(28)
David L. Hamilton
Steven J. Sherman
Brian Lickel
4 Differential Distrust of Groups and Individuals	75	(34)
Chester A. Insko
John Schopler
5 Personal Control, Entitativity, and Evolution	109	(12)
Chester A. Insko
John Schopler
Constantine Sedikides
III PROCESSES AFFECTING INTERGROUP COGNITION AND INTERGROUP BEHAVIOR: PERCEPTUAL AND JUDGMENTAL PROCESSES	121	(82)
6 Group Variability and Covariation: Effects on Intergroup Judgment and Behaviour	123	(28)
Patricia W. Linville
Gregory W. Fischer
7 Judging and Behaving Toward Members of Stereotyped Groups: A Shifting Standards Perspective	151	(26)
Monica Biernat
Theresa K. Vescio
Melvin Manis
8 The Role of Stereotypic Knowledge in the Construal of Person Models	177	(26)
Bernd Wittenbrink
Bernadette Park
Charles M. Judd
IV PROCESSES AFFECTING INTERGROUP COGNITION AND BEHAVIOR: MOTIVATIONAL AND SOCIAL PROCESSES	203	(106)
9 A Systemic View of Behavioral Confirmation: Counterpoint to the Individualist View	205	(28)
Theresa Clare
Susan T. Fiske
10 Getting by With a Little Help From Our Enemies: Collective Paranoia and Its Role in Intergroup Relations	233	(24)
Roderick M. Kramer
David M. Messick
11 Individuals, Groups, and Social Change: On the Relationship Between Individual and Collective Self-Interpretations and Collective Action	257	(26)
Bernd Simon
12 Group Socialization and Intergroup Relations	283	(26)
John M. Levine
Richard L. Moreland
Carey S. Ryan
V ON THE REDUCTION OF UNWANTED INTERGROUP COGNITION AND BEHAVIOR	309	(114)
13 Stereotypes in Thought and Deed: Social-Cognitive Origins of Intergroup Discrimination	311	(26)
Galen V. Bodenhausen
C. Neil Macrae
Jennifer Garst
14 Positive Affect, Cognition, and the Reduction of Intergroup Bias	337	(30)
John F. Dovidio
Samuel L. Gaertner
Alice M. Isen
Mary Rust
Paula Guerra
15 Changing Intergroup Cognitions and Intergroup Behavior: The Role of Typicality	367	(26)
Miles Hewstone
Charles G. Lord
16 A Theoretical Analysis of Crossed Social Categorization Effects	393	(30)
Norman Miller
Lynn M. Urban
Eric J. Vanman
VI CONCLUDING COMMENTARY	423	(28)
17 Intergroup Cognition and Intergroup Behavior: Crossing the Boundaries	423	(28)
Diane M. Mackie
Eliot R. Smith
Author Index	451	(14)
Subject Index	465