ABSTRACT
Psychological research on the origins and consequences of prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping has moved into previously uncharted directions through the introduction of neuroscientific measures. Psychologists can now address issues that are difficult to examine with traditional methodologies and monitor motivational and emotional as they develop during ongoing intergroup interactions, thus enabling the empirical investigation of the fundamental biological bases of prejudice.
However, several very promising strands of research have largely developed independently of each other. By bringing together the work of leading prejudice researchers from across the world who have begun to study this field with different neuroscientific tools, this volume provides the first integrated view on the specific drawbacks and benefits of each type of measure, illuminates how standard paradigms in research on prejudice and intergroup relations can be adapted for the use of neuroscientific methods, and illustrates how different methodologies can complement each other and be combined to advance current insights into the nature of prejudice.
This cutting-edge volume will be of interest to advanced undergraduates, graduates, and researchers students who study prejudice, intergroup relations, and social neuroscience.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|21 pages
The “Nature” of Prejudice
part I|63 pages
Categorization and In-group Favoritism
chapter 2|20 pages
Imaging the Pictures in Our Heads
chapter 3|18 pages
The Implicit Effects of Social Identity
part II|77 pages
Person Perception and Stereotyping
chapter 5|21 pages
Scanning for Scholars
chapter 6|20 pages
Social Identity Shapes Social Perception and Evaluation
chapter 8|18 pages
Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Responses to Stereotype Activation among Non-Stereotyped Individuals
part III|62 pages
Overcoming Implicit Prejudice
chapter 9|23 pages
Implicit Prejudice and the Regulation of Intergroup Responses
chapter 11|18 pages
Moral Accountability and Prejudice Control
part IV|49 pages
Coping with Prejudice and Identity Threat
chapter 12|14 pages
The Biopsychosocial Model of Challenge and Threat
part V|78 pages
Intergroup Interactions