ABSTRACT
In recent years a number of social psychologists have criticized the discipline’s overreliance on cognitive explanations of prejudice (Billig, 1985) and called for increased attention to the neglected role of affect in intergroup relations (Dijker, 1987; Pettigrew, 1981, 1986) and in social inference (Zajonc, 1980). As a partial remedy for this neglect, this chapter focuses on the role of anxiety in the creation and maintenance of the affect, cognitions and behaviour stemming from intergroup interaction.
