ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on the psychological processes involved in practicing tolerance. Individuals differ in their general tendency to be tolerant and in their more pragmatic and principled reasons for toleration. Furthermore, a dual-process model argues for the importance of deliberation in the tolerance process and the implications of this model, and the related empirical research will be discussed. Additionally, tolerance depends on the motivations that dissenting others have for engaging in behaviour that is criticised, disliked, or disapproved off. Moreover, tolerance does not only depend on how we understand and evaluate the dissenting behaviour of others, but also on how we understand ourselves as group members. The content of the ingroup identity and the degree of ingroup identification matter, and can also lead to higher rather than lower tolerance
