On The Nature of Prejudice Fifty Years After Allport

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Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2005-06-17
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

On the Nature of Prejudice commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Gordon Allport's classic work on prejudice and discrimination by examining the current state of knowledge in the field. A distinguished collection of international scholars considers Allport's impact on the field, reviews recent developments, and identifies promising directions for future investigation. Organized around Allport's central themes, this book provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive view of where the field has been, where it is now, and where it is going.

Author Biography

John F. Dovidio is Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut. His publications include Reducing Intergroup Bias (with Samuel Gaertner, 2000) and The Social Psychology of Helping and Altruism (with David A. Schroeder, Louis A. Penner, and Jane A. Piliavin, 1995).


Peter Glick is Professor of Psychology at Lawrence University. Along with co-author Susan T. Fiske of Princeton University, he received the 1995 Gordon W. Allport Prize for his research on ambivalent sexism.


Laurie A. Rudman is Associate Professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. She is currently an Associate Editor for the journal Social Cognition and serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors viii
Foreword by Victoria M. Esses xi
Preface xiii
1 Introduction: Reflecting on The Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years after Allport 1(16)
John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, and Laurie A. Rudman
Part I: Preferential Thinking 17(104)
2 What is the Problem? Prejudice as an Attitude-in-Context
19(17)
Alice H. Eagly and Amanda B. Diekman
3 Social Cognition and the Normality of Prejudgment
36(18)
Susan T. Fiske
4 Ingroup Affiliations and Prejudice
54(17)
Rupert Brown and Hanna Zagefka
5 Categorization, Recategorization, and Intergroup Bias
71(18)
Samuel L. Gaertner and John F. Dovidio
6 Rejection or Inclusion of Outgroups?
89(17)
Mary R. Jackman
7 Rejection of Women? Beyond Prejudice as Antipathy
106(17)
Laurie A. Rudman
Part II: Group Differences 121(52)
8 Group Differences and Stereotype Accuracy
123(16)
Charles M. Judd and Bernadette Park
9 The Psychological Impact of Prejudice
139(16)
Brenda Major and S. Brooke Vick
10 Mechanisms for Coping with Victimization: Self-Protection Plus Self-Enhancement
155(18)
James M. Jones
Part III: Perceiving and Thinking About Group Differences 173(52)
11 Cognitive Process: Reality Constraints and Integrity Concerns in Social Perception
175(17)
Vincent Yzerbyt and Olivier Corneille
12 Linguistic Factors: Antilocutions, Ethnonyms, Ethnophaulisms, and Other Varieties of Hate Speech
192(16)
Brian Mullen and Tirza Leader
13 Stereotypes in Our Culture
208(17)
John T. Jost and David L. Hamilton
Part IV: Sociocultural Factors 225(68)
14 Instrumental Relations Among Groups: Group Competition, Conflict, and Prejudice
227(17)
Victoria M. Esses, Lynne M. Jackson, John F. Dovidio, and Gordon Hodson
15 Choice of Scapegoats
244(18)
Peter Glick
16 Allport's Intergroup Contact Hypothesis: Its History and Influence
262(16)
Thomas F. Pettigrew and Linda R. Tropp
17 Intergroup Contact: When Does it Work, and Why?
278(15)
Jared B. Kenworthy, Rhiannon N. Turner, Miles Hewstone, and Alberto Voci
Part V: Acquiring Prejudice 293(66)
18 Conformity and Prejudice
295(15)
Christian S. Crandall and Charles Stangor
19 The Development of Prejudice in Childhood and Adolescence
310(17)
Frances E. Aboud
20 Breaking the Prejudice Habit: Allport's "Inner Conflict" Revisited
327(16)
Patricia G. Devine
21 Inner Conflict in the Political Psychology of Racism
343(16)
David O. Sears
Part VI: The Dynamics of Prejudice 359(34)
22 Aggression, Hatred, and Other Emotions
361(16)
Eliot R. Smith and Diane M. Mackie
23 Allport's "Living Inkblots": The Role of Defensive Projection in Stereotyping and Prejudice
377(16)
Leonard S. Newman and Tracy L. Caldwell
Part VII: Character Structure 393(36)
24 Personality and Prejudice
395(18)
John Duckitt
25 Religion and Prejudice
413(16)
C. Daniel Batson and E.L. Stocks
Part VIII: Reducing Group Tensions 429(18)
26 Intergroup Relations Program Evaluation
431(16)
Walter G. Stephan and Cookie White Stephan
Author Index 447(16)
Subject Index 463

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