Stereotypes and Prejudice

<p>This book contains a collection of classic and contemporary readings that have contributed to our understanding of stereotypes and prejudice from a social-psychological perspective. The selected readings all make an important theoretical contribution, but have also been chosen with an eye on their accessibility and appeal to students.<br><br>The volume also includes an overall review of the current state of knowledge in the field, discussion questions, and a list of relevant references. It will be ideal for courses on prejudice.</p> <p><em>C. Stangor</em>, Volume Overview. <strong>Part I: Conceptualizing</strong><strong>Stereotypes and Prejudice.</strong><em>G. Allport</em>, The Nature of Prejudice. <em>H. Tajfel & J. Forgas</em>, Social Categorization: Cognitions, Values, and Groups. <em>C. Stangor & M. Schaller</em>, Stereotypes as Individual and Collective Representations. <strong>Part II: Measuring Stereotypes and Prejudice.</strong><em>P. Devine & A. Elliot</em>, Are Racial Stereotypes Really Fading? <em>A. Eagly & A. Mladinic</em>, Gender Stereotypes and Attitudes toward Women and Men. <em>I. Katz & R. Hass</em>, Racial Ambivalence and American Value Conflict: Correlational and Priming Studies of Dual Cognitive Structures. <em>L. Lepore & R. Brown</em>, Category and Stereotype Activation: Is Prejudice Inevitable. <strong>Part III: How do Stereotypes Develop?</strong><em>A. Eagly & V. Steffen</em>, Gender Stereotypes from the Distribution of Women and Men into Social Roles. <em>D. Hamilton & R. Gifford</em>, Illusory Correlation in Interpersonal Perception: A Cognitive Basis of Stereotypic Judgments. <em>S. Fein & S. Spencer</em>, Prejudice as Self-Image Maintenance: Affirming the Self through Derogating Others. <em>A. Maass, D. Salvi, L. Arcuri, & G. Semin</em>, Language Use in Intergroup Contexts: The Linguistic Intergroup Bias. <strong>Part IV: Why are Stereotypes</strong><strong>Maintained Even When They are Inaccurate?</strong><em>J. Darley & P. Gross</em>, A Hypothesis-Confirming Bias in Labeling Effects. <em>C. Word, M. Zanna, & J.</em><em>Cooper,</em> The Nonverbal Mediation of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in Interracial Interaction. <em>C. Miller, E. Rothblum, D. Felicio, & P. Brand</em>, Compensating for Stigma: Obese and Nonobese Women's reactions to being Visible. <strong>Part V: When do We Use</strong><strong>Stereotypes?</strong><em>G. V. Bodenhausen</em>, Stereotypes as Judgemental Heuristics: Evidence of Circadian Variations in Discrimination. <em>F. Pratto, J. Sidanius, L. Stallworth, & B. Malle</em>, Social Dominance Orientation: A Personality Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes. <em>S. Gaertner & J. Dovidio</em>, The Aversive Form of Racism. <em>M. Monteith, P. Devine, & J. Zuwerink</em>, Self-Directed versus Other-Directed Affect as a Consequence of Prejudice-Related Discrepancies. <strong>Part</strong><strong>VI: The Impact of Stereotypes and Prejudice.</strong><em>B. Simon & R. Brown</em>, Perceived Intragroup Homogeneity in Minority-Majority Contexts. <em>S. Fiske, D. Bersoff, E. Borgida, K. Deaux, and M. Heilman</em>, Social Science Research on Trial: The Use of Sex Stereotyping Research in Price Waterhouse vs. Hopkins. <em>J. Crocker, K. Voelkl, M. Testa, & B. Major</em>, Social Stigma: The Affective Consequences of Attributional Ambiguity. <em>C. Steele & J. Aronson</em>, Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African-Americans. <strong>Part VII: Improving</strong><strong>Intergroup Perceptions and Behavior.</strong><em>M. Hewstone</em>, Contact and Categorization: Social Psychological Interventions to Change Intergroup Relations. <em>M. Rothbart & O. John</em>, Social Categorization and Behavioral Episodes: A Cognitive Analysis of the Effects of Intergroup Contact. <em>S. Gaertner, J. Dovidio, A. Murrell, & M. Pomare</em>, How does Cooperation Reduce Intergroup Bias?</p>