Editorial Reviews

Review

'Mackie and Smith have assembled an impressive line-up of leading scholars who share an interest in affective and emotional dimensions of intergroup phenomena. This book is a timely and quite original integration of diverse strands of research that address the 'hot' dimension of intergroup behavior - a dimension that has until recently taken the back seat to an emphasis on cognitive processes and structures. By bringing this work together, Mackie and Smith have done the field a great service in setting a clear agenda for this new emphasis in the social psychology of intergroup behavior.'.

–Michael A. Hogg, University of Queensland

'Mackie and Smith have assembled an impressive line-up of leading scholars who share an interest in affective and emotional dimensions of intergroup phenomena. This book is a timely and quite original integration of diverse strands of research that address the 'hot' dimension of intergroup behavior - a dimension that has until recently taken the back seat to an emphasis on cognitive processes and structures. By bringing this work together, Mackie and Smith have done the field a great service in setting a clear agenda for this new emphasis in the social psychology of intergroup behavior.'.

–Michael A. Hogg, University of Queensland

About the Book

The theories or programs of research described in the chapters of this book move beyond the traditional evaluation model of prejudice, drawing on a broad range of theoretical ancestry to develop models of why, when, and how differentiated reactions to groups arise, and what their consequences might be. The chapters have in common a re-focusing of interest on emotion as a theoretical base for understanding differentiated reactions to, and differentiated behaviors toward, social groups. The contributions also share a focus on specific interactional and structural relations among groups as a source of these differentiated emotional reactions. The chapters in the volume thus reflect a theoretical shift from an earlier emphasis on knowledge about ingroups and outgroups to a new perspective on prejudice in which socially-grounded emotional differentiation becomes a basis for social regulation.

Table of Contents

From Prejudice to Intergroup Emotions: Differentiated Reactions to Social Groups

Edited by Diane Mackie and Eliot Smith

1: Beyond Prejudice: Moving from Positive and Negative Evaluations to Differentiated Reactions to Social Groups

Diane M. Mackie and Eliot Smith

2: Social-Self Discrepencies and Group-Based Emotional Distress

Aharon Bizman & Yoel Yinon

3: Promotion and Prevention Forms of Intergroup Bias

James Y. Shah, Paige C. Brazy, & E. Tory Higgins

4: Antecedents and Consequences of Collective Guilt

Nyla R. Branscombe, Bertjan Doosje, & Craig McGarty

5: Intergroup Emotions and Self-Categorization: The Impact of Perspective-Talking on Reactions to Victims of Harmful Behavior

Vincent Yzerbyt, Muriel Dumont, Ernestine Gordijn, & Daniel Wigboldus

6: Intergroup Encounters and Threat: A Multi-Method Approach

Jim Blascovich, Wendy Berry Mendes, & Mark D. Sneery

7: Experiencing Intergroup Emotions

Theirry Devos, Lisa A. Silver, Diane M. Mackie, & Eliot R. Smith

8: Expressing Emotions and Decoding Them: In-groups and Out-groups do not Share the Same Advantages

Jacques-Philippe Leyens, Stephanie Demoulin, Michel Desert, Jeroen Vaes, & Pierre Philippot

9: The Role of Affect in Determining Intergroup Behavior: The Case of Willingness to Engage in Intergroup Contact

John F. Dovidio, Victoria M. Esses, Kelly R. Beach, & Samuel L. Gaertner

10: Close Encounters of the Suspicious Kind: Outgoing Paranoia in Hierarchical Trust Dilemmas

Roderick M. Kramer and John T. Jost

11: The Role of Threat in Intergroup Relations

Walter G. Stephan & C. Lausanne Renfro

12: Intergroup Emotions and Images

Marilynn B. Brewer & Michele G. Alexander

13: They System Justification Motive in Intergroup Relations

John T. Jost and Roderick M. Kramer

14: Emotions Up and Down: Intergroup Emotions Result from Perceived Status and Competition

Susan T. Fiske, Amy J.C. Cuddy, & Peter Glick

15: Intergroup Emotions: A Biocultural Approach

Steven L. Neuberg & Catherine A. Cottrell

16: Commentary

Eliot R. Smith and Diane M. Mackiej