The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice
The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice
The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Prejudice aims to answer the questions: why is prejudice so persistent? How does it affect people exposed to it? And what can we do about it? Providing a comprehensive examination of prejudice from its evolutionary beginnings and environmental influences through to its manifestations and consequences, this Handbook is an essential resource for scholars and students who are passionate about understanding prejudice, social change, collective action, and prejudice reduction. Featuring cutting-edge research from top scholars in the field, the chapters provide an overview of psychological models of prejudice; investigate prejudice in specific domains such as race, religion, gender, and appearance; and develop explicit, evidence-based strategies for disrupting the processes that produce and maintain prejudice. This Handbook challenges researchers and readers to move beyond their comfort zone, and sets the agenda for future avenues of research, policy, and intervention.
- Brings together chapters on prejudice from often disparate theoretical perspectives
- Features cutting-edge research on racial, sexual, and appearance-based prejudice, and demonstrates that while prejudice is pervasive, the way that it manifests (and why it persists) can differ depending on the target
- Concludes with a real-world example of anti-racist activism, with Jane Elliott describing the genesis of her 'Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes' anti-discrimination intervention in the wake of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr
Reviews & endorsements
"Sibley and Barlow's comprehensive volume includes an impressive array of cutting-edge theory and research on prejudice from the major scholars in the field. In addition to the usual gender- and race-based prejudice, their authors address heterosexism, fat oppression, and religious prejudice."
Kristin J. Anderson, University of Houston, Downtown
"This book is a scholarly delight … a superb blend of foundational theories (and theorists) that have shaped our understanding of prejudice and contemporary approaches that take this classic work in exciting new directions. I recommend it to anyone with even the slightest interest in the topic."
William von Hippel, University of Queensland
"For anyone needing to wrap their head around the current thinking on prejudice, this is the perfect one-stop shop. Contains the biggest names, with the biggest ideas in the field."
Matthew Hornsey, University of Queensland
'Illuminat[es] the necessity of diverse approaches for tackling this ‘complex human problem’ that is prejudice. … Allport ‘demonstrated that it is possible for social science to contribute to the understanding and resolution of social problems and at the same time be value-oriented and socially sensitive’, and showed how ‘social scientists must be the contemporary custodians of such enduring human values as justice’. Sibley and Barlow’s (2017) handbook echoes these principles in a theoretically and empirically grounded, impressive, well-written, must-read volume.' Becky L. Choma, Arvin Jagayat, David Sumantry and Vashisht Asrani, Social Justice Research Journal
'A large proportion of the material in this book will mainly be of interested to academics. I would warmly recommend it to all academic libraries catering for work in psychology, social psychology, sociology, politics, etc. The subject ought to be of wide general interest.' Martin Guha, Reference Reviews
'This work is essential for collections dealing with social psychology and the topic of prejudice and discrimination in all forms.' CHOICE
'[An] impressive, well-written, must-read volume.' Social Justice Research
Product details
December 2018Paperback
9781107485280
687 pages
250 × 190 × 40 mm
1.32kg
20 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Part I. General Theoretical Perspectives:
- 1. An introduction to the psychology of prejudice Chris G. Sibley and Fiona Kate Barlow
- 2. Evolutionary approaches to stereotyping and prejudice Oliver Sng, Keelah E. G. Williams and Steven L. Neuberg
- 3. From prejudice to social change: a social identity perspective Katherine J. Reynolds, Emina Subasic, Luisa Batalha and Ben Jones
- 4. Ingroup projection as a challenge of diversity: consensus about and complexity of superordinate categories Michael Wenzel, Sven Waldzus and Melanie C. Steffens
- 5. Intergroup discrimination: ingroup love or outgroup hate? Marilynn B. Brewer
- 6. Intergroup emotions theory: prejudice and differentiated emotional reactions toward outgroups Angela T. Maitner, Eliot R. Smith and Diane M. Mackie
- 7. Intergroup threats Walter G. Stephan and Cookie White Stephan
- 8. Social dominance theory: explorations in the psychology of oppression Jim Sidanius, Sarah Cotterill, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Nour Kteily and Héctor Carvacho
- 9. The dual process motivational model of ideology and prejudice John Duckitt and Chris G. Sibley
- 10. Is prejudice heritable? Evidence from twin studies Fiona Kate Barlow, James M. Sherlock and Brendan P. Zietsch
- Part II. Prejudice in Specific Domains:
- 11. Understanding the nature, measurement, and utility of implicit intergroup biases Kumar Yogeeswaran, Thierry Devos and Kyle Nash
- 12. Aversive racism and contemporary bias John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner and Adam R. Pearson
- 13. Ambivalent sexism in the twenty-first century Rachel A. Connor, Peter Glick and Susan T. Fiske
- 14. Sexism in intimate contexts: how romantic relationships help explain the origins, functions and consequences of sexist attitudes Matthew D. Hammond and Nickola C. Overall
- 15. Religion and prejudice Ben K. L. Ng and Will M. Gervais
- 16. Sexual prejudice: advances in conceptual and empirical models V. Paul Poteat and Michelle Birkett
- 17. Weight bias: prejudice and discrimination towards overweight and obese people Phillippa C. Diedrichs and Rebecca Puhl
- 18. Prejudice against immigrants in multicultural societies Colleen Ward, Agnes Szabo and Jaimee Stuart
- 19. Generalized prejudice: old wisdom and new perspectives Robin Bergh and Nazar Akrami
- Part III. Prejudice Reduction and Analysis in Applied Contexts:
- 20. Recent developments in intergroup contact research: affective processes, group status, and contact valence Linda R. Tropp, Agostino Mazziotta and Stephen C. Wright
- 21. From prejudice reduction to collective action: two psychological models of social change (and how to reconcile them) John Dixon, Kevin Durrheim, Clifford Stevenson and Huseyin Cakal
- 22. Self-regulation strategies for combating prejudice Mason D. Burns, Laura Ruth M. Parker and Margo J. Monteith
- 23. Antecedents and consequences of evaluative concerns experienced during intergroup interaction: when and how does group status matter? Jacquie D. Vorauer and Matthew Quesnel
- 24. Stereotypicality biases and the criminal justice system Danny Osborne, Paul G. Davies and Shirley Hutchinson
- 25. Prejudice, stigma, bias, discrimination and health Yin Paradies, João Luiz Bastos and Naomi Priest
- 26. Development of delegitimization and animosity in the context of intractable conflict Daniel Bar-Tal and Talia Avrahamzon
- 27. Interventions in real world settings: using media to overcome prejudice and promote intergroup reconciliation in Central Africa Rezarta Bilali and Ervin Staub
- 28. Identification with all humanity: the antithesis of prejudice, and more Sam McFarland
- 29. It's all about ignorance: reflections from the blue-eyed/brown-eyed exercise Jane Elliott.
