Where do stereotypes come from? How accurate are they, and how do they affect interpersonal and intergroup relations? Can stereotypes be changed? Stereotypes--structured sets of beliefs about the characteristics of members of social categories--influence how people attend to, encode, represent, and retrieve information about others, and how they judge and respond to them. A comprehensive overview of contemporary research, this volume highlights important approaches that have considerably expanded our understanding of stereotyping in recent years. Integrating cognitive, motivational, emotional, and linguistic perspectives, Stereotypes and Stereotyping demonstrates the diversity and richness of the field today and illuminates new directions for future research.
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"This much-needed volume is a thoroughly modern, thoroughly splendid collection of essays on the psychology of stereotyping written by the area's most influential thinkers and most active researchers. In its pages, readers will find just about everything that social psychology has discovered in a half century of research on this important topic." --Daniel Gilbert, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin
"Sometimes edited books are promissory notes, indications that a lot of people really wish they knew something about a topic. At other times, an edited volume represents a mature body of knowledge in a field that is not only going somewhere but that has in fact just arrived. This book is of the latter variety, and a fine specimen. Stereotypes and Stereotyping collects and advances the best social psychological work in this rapidly developing area." --Daniel Wegner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
"This is an excellent and timely collection of chapters by some of the most important researchers and theorists in the area. The past 20 years of work has revealed much about the cognitive aspects of stereotypes and stereotyping. Building on that foundation, social psychologists are now integrating affect, language, interpersonal interaction, and sociocultural variables to provide a more comprehensive account. Are stereotypes affective or cognitive? Are they in individuals' heads or in the cultural environment? Are they accurate or inaccurate? Do they cause or simply rationalize intergroup discrimination? In each case, research shows that the answer is probably both. Multi-level integrative theoretical approaches that can accommodate the interactivity and complexity of stereotypes are not yet fully developed, but the chapters in this book outline what is known and provide clear statements of the major unresolved issues." --Eliot R. Smith, Ph.D., Purdue University
"Sometimes edited books are promissory notes, indications that a lot of people really wish they knew something about a topic. At other times, an edited volume represents a mature body of knowledge in a field that is not only going somewhere but that has in fact just arrived. This book is of the latter variety, and a fine specimen. Stereotypes and Stereotyping collects and advances the best social psychological work in this rapidly developing area." --Daniel Wegner, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
"This is an excellent and timely collection of chapters by some of the most important researchers and theorists in the area. The past 20 years of work has revealed much about the cognitive aspects of stereotypes and stereotyping. Building on that foundation, social psychologists are now integrating affect, language, interpersonal interaction, and sociocultural variables to provide a more comprehensive account. Are stereotypes affective or cognitive? Are they in individuals' heads or in the cultural environment? Are they accurate or inaccurate? Do they cause or simply rationalize intergroup discrimination? In each case, research shows that the answer is probably both. Multi-level integrative theoretical approaches that can accommodate the interactivity and complexity of stereotypes are not yet fully developed, but the chapters in this book outline what is known and provide clear statements of the major unresolved issues." --Eliot R. Smith, Ph.D., Purdue University
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C. Neil Macrae, Ph.D., is a Reader in Psychology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His current research interests focus on the role of inhibitory processes in stereotyping, behavioral self-regulation, and mental control. He is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology.
Charles Stangor, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His current research interests focus on the cognitive and motivational determinants of stereotyping and prejudice, the influence of ethnicity on academic performance, and the perception of prejudice by, and effects of prejudice on, stigmatized target persons.
Miles Hewstone, D.Phil., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and has published widely on attribution theory, social cognition, stereotyping, and intergroup relations. He is a co-founding editor of the European Review of Social Psychology, and a former editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology.
Charles Stangor, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His current research interests focus on the cognitive and motivational determinants of stereotyping and prejudice, the influence of ethnicity on academic performance, and the perception of prejudice by, and effects of prejudice on, stigmatized target persons.
Miles Hewstone, D.Phil., is Professor of Psychology at the University of Wales, Cardiff, and has published widely on attribution theory, social cognition, stereotyping, and intergroup relations. He is a co-founding editor of the European Review of Social Psychology, and a former editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology.
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As a lawyer working in the area of employment discrimination, Ihave often been frustrated in knowing that my client was subjected toadverse treatment because of his or her race, age or gender, but have been unable to put a scientific label on my arguments. This book is a gateway to the literature which explains just how people are categorized and marginalized in the workplace. The bibliography is excellent, giving access to other sources that expand the concepts.
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babyish overgeneralization effect, valence inaccuracy, dispersion inaccuracy, actual central tendency, perceived central tendency, perceived stereotypicality, stereotypic inaccuracy, unmarked traits, correspondent inference processes, relative group differences, counterstereotypic attributes, evaluative stereotypes, multiple social features, perceived group variability, stereotype accuracy, perceived dispersion, behavioral affordances, overgeneralization effects, stereotype suppression, nonprejudiced standards, typic beliefs, consensual stereotypes, stereotype acquisition, stereotype inaccuracies, linguistic intergroup bias Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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babyish overgeneralization effect, valence inaccuracy, dispersion inaccuracy, actual central tendency, perceived central tendency, perceived stereotypicality, stereotypic inaccuracy, unmarked traits, correspondent inference processes, relative group differences, counterstereotypic attributes, evaluative stereotypes, multiple social features, perceived group variability, stereotype accuracy, perceived dispersion, behavioral affordances, overgeneralization effects, stereotype suppression, nonprejudiced standards, typic beliefs, consensual stereotypes, stereotype acquisition, stereotype inaccuracies, linguistic intergroup bias Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of Personality, New York, Academic Press, African Americans, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Social Issues, Psychological Review, United States, San Diego, Del Boca, Cambridge University Press, American Psychologist, Plenum Press, Guilford Press, Los Angeles, American Psychological Association, Englewood Cliffs, Newbury Park, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Free Press, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Educational Psychology, The Ontario, Beverly Hills, Harcourt Brace New!
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