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Intergroup Cognition and Intergroup Behavior

Intergroup Cognition and Intergroup Behavior

Sedikides, Constantine
Schopler, John
Insko, Chester A.

Paperback

Series: Applied Social Research

General PsychologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0805820566
ISBN13: 9780805820560
Publisher: Psychology Pr
Published: Dec 1 1997
Pages: 482
Weight: 1.50
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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:

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