Intergroup Relations : The Role of Motivation and Emotion

by Otten, Sabine; Sassenberg, Kai; Kessler, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780203877005
• ISBN10: 0203877004
• Copyright: 2009-06-09
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This book analyses recent developments in intergroup research. It diverges from classical approaches that looked at diverse needs and motives, focussing not on what motivates intergroup behaviour, but on how intergroup behavior functions.

Table of Contents

Classical Approaches to Motivation in Intergroup Relations

Motivations Underlying Ingroup Identification: Optimal Distinctiveness and Beyond

Creative Distinctiveness: Explaining In-group Bias in Minimal Groups

The Ingroup Projection Model

Social Identity and Justice: Implications for Intergroup Relations

Recent Approaches to Motivation and Intergroup Relations

Mood and Cognition in Intergroup Judgment

A Self-Regulation Approach to Group Processes

Go to Hell! Determinants of Motivated Social Exclusion

Emotions and Intergroup Relations

Group-based Emotions: The Social Heart in the Individual Head

Social Categorization, Intergroup Emotions and Aggressive Interactions

From Both Sides Now: Perpetrator and Victim Responses to Intergroup Transgressions

Hierarchy-based Groups: Real Inequalities and Essential Differences

Motivated Change in Intergroup Relations

To Be is To Do is To Be: Collective Identity and Action

Change in Intergroup Relations: Psychological Processes Accompanying, Determining and Determined by Social Change

Cross-group Contact Effects

Interventions Enhancing Intergroup Tolerance

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