Intergroup Contact Theory (eBook, ePUB)

Recent developments and future directions
Redaktion: Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume highlights the most notable recent developments in intergroup contact theory, demonstrating its vitality and its capacity for reinvention. It includes coverage of a number of previously under-researched domains which underline and extend the full potential of the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317295235
• Artikelnr.: 47387008

Autorenporträt

Loris Vezzali is Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, where he teaches Social and Group Psychology. His main research interests concern intergroup relations and, in particular, strategies for the reduction of explicit and implicit prejudice. Sofia Stathi is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich, UK, where she teaches Social and Cultural Psychology and Social Cognition. Her research focuses mainly on intergroup relations, categorization processes, and multiculturalism.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors. Introduction - The Present and the future of the
contact hypothesis, and the need for integrating research fields 1.
Individual differences in intergroup contact propensity and prejudice
reduction 2. The influence of direct and extended contact on the
development of acculturation preferences among majority members 3. The
irony of harmony: Past and new developments 4. A temporally integrated
model of intergroup contact and threat (TIMICAT) 5. Investigating positive
and negative intergroup contact: Rectifying a long-standing positivity bias
in the literature 6. The extended intergroup contact hypothesis: State of
the art and future developments 7. A future focus for imagined contact:
Advances in and beyond intergroup relations 8. Intergroup contact among
children 9. Concluding thoughts: The past, present and future of research
on the contact hypothesis. Index