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Informationen zum Autor Thomas A. Morton is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Exeter, UK. His research focuses on how people experience and express their social identities, and the strategic considerations and reality constraints that govern these processes. His work on this theme has covered such topics as conflict and forgiveness, intragroup processes, deviance and change, prejudice, and stereotyping. He is currently Associate Editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology. Kai J. Jonas is Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied social sciences and mathematics at the University of Gottingen, Germany. Since 2008 he has been tenured assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, publishing in international journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. He has also developed, implemented and documented applied intervention programs. Klappentext Breakdowns in civil societies can be catalyzed by factors ranging from war and genocide to natural disaster, disease and economic downturns. Restoring Civil Societies examines social processes related to civic engagement in the wake of these societal ruptures. The authors show how crises in civil society can be both pervasive and localized, broad-based and limited to defined social sub-groups. Whatever their scale, Restoring Civil Societies identifies models that analyze the social psychology of crises in order to devise ways of re-activating civic engagement and safeguarding civil society.Focusing on these positive interventions, the authors identify a number of key strategies, ranging from the simplicity and directness of bystander interventions to the volunteer armies mobilized in the wake of natural disasters. They include collective action organized to redress systemic inequalities, and the vital healing role played by truth commissions in Rwanda and elsewhere. Restoring Civil Societies fills the gap between basic research on social issues and translation into social policies and programs-an area which, in light of current economic and social unrest, is more important now than ever. Zusammenfassung Restoring Civil Societies examines the role of civic engagement as a form of prosocial behavior motivated by a commitment to higher-order norms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix Series Editor's Preface xix 1 Introduction 1 Kai J. Jonas and Thomas A. Morton Part I Theoretical Approaches 17 2 Justice Sensitivity as Resource or Risk Factor in Civic Engagement 19 Anna Baumert, Nadine Thomas, and Manfred Schmitt 3 Regulating Psychological Threat: The Motivational Consequences of Threatening Contexts 38 Bastiaan T. Rutjens, Joop van der Pligt, and Frenk van Harreveld 4 Prosocial Behavior in the Context of Crisis 57 Kai J. Jonas 5 A Social Ecological Perspective on Risk and Resilience for Children and Political Violence: Implications for Restoring Civil Societies 78 E. Mark Cummings, Laura K. Taylor, and Christine E. Merrilees 6 Everyday Helping and Responses to Crises: A Model for Understanding Volunteerism 98 Allen M. Omoto, Mark Snyder, and Justin D. Hackett 7 Collective Action as Civic Engagement: Toward an Encompassing Psychological Perspective 119 Martijn van Zomeren, Tom Postmes, and Russell Spears 8 Intergroup Relations in Post-Conflict Contexts: How the Past Influences the Present (and Future) 135 John F. Dovidio, Samuel L. Gaertner, Ruth K. Ditlmann, and Tessa V. West 9 Humanizing Others Without Normalizing Harm: The Role of Human Concepts and Categories in Intergroup Reconciliation and Forgiveness 156 Thomas A. Morton, Matthew J. Hornsey, and Tom Postmes
