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Intergroup relations

"This book examines social psychology's unique contribution to our understanding of intergroup relations, examining interactions from the level of individual psychological processes to the behavior of large social groups. It focuses on the cognitive and motivational processes that gives rise to group identity, intergroup discrimination and conflict." "Intergroup Relations uses historical and contemporary examples to illustrate abstract concepts, including different types of social groupings - ethnic, religious, political and linguistic. Coverage in each chapter includes historical perspectives, current theory, methodological paradigms, emerging issues and policy applications."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1996
Open University Press, Buckingham [England], 1996
xiv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780335092604, 9780335092611, 0335092608, 0335092616
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From basic psychological processes to intergroup conflict; ethnocentrism and ingroup identity - the need for "we-ness"; prejudice and outgroup hostility - when difference is bad; intergroup discrimination - what is just to us is unfair to them; intergroup contact, cooperation and competition - does togetherness make friends?; international conflict - what makes war possible?.