Group and Intergroup Processes
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Intergroup Relations
The Role of Motivation and Emotion (A Festschrift for Amélie Mummendey)
Series: Psychology Press Festschrift Series
This volume gives a survey of the most recent developments and trends in intergroup research. Diverging from classical approaches that looked at diverse needs and motives (positive distinctiveness, belongingness, etc), the present book focuses not only on the question what motivates...
Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
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Minority Influence and Innovation
Antecedents, Processes and Consequences
Social groups form an important part of our daily lives. Within these groups pressures exist which encourage the individual to comply with the group’s viewpoint. This influence, which creates social conformity, is known as ‘majority influence’ and is the dominant process of social control. However,...
Published October 21st 2012 by Psychology Press
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Multiple Social Categorization
Processes, Models and Applications
'Ethnic cleansing', 'institutional racism', and 'social exclusion' are just some of the terms used to describe one of the most pressing social issues facing today’s societies: prejudice and intergroup discrimination. Invariably, these pervasive social problems can be traced back to differences in...
Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Reducing Intergroup Bias
The Common Ingroup Identity Model
Series: Essays in Social Psychology
Considers situations and interventions that can foster more inclusive representation and ways, both theoretically and practically, and that a common ingroup identity can facilitate more harmonious intergroup relations....
Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press
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Social Psychology of Inclusion and Exclusion
This book is about the social psychological dynamics and phenomenology of social inclusion and exclusion. The editors take as their starting point the assumption that social life is conducted in a framework of relationships in which individuals seek inclusion and belongingness. Relationships...
Published April 30th 2013 by Psychology Press
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The Psychology of Group Perception
This groundbreaking work by leading social psychologists, who have all contributed in important ways to the psychology of group perception, focuses in particular on three interrelated issues: (1) whether groups are seen to be diverse or relatively homogeneous; (2) whether groups are seen as real...
Published June 19th 2013 by Psychology Press





