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The area of intergroup relations and social conflict has once again become a major focus of social psychological theorizing and research. One of the consequences of this advance in knowledge is that social psychologists have increasingly been called upon to apply their ideas in order to advise on existing conflicts. The significant contribution of this book is the way it builds on the research and theory of intergroup conflict and then applies this knowledge to the field. The areas discussed include industrial conflicts, interethnic conflicts and intergroup conflicts. The chapters range from reports of experimental laboratory research, through field studies, to theoretical-conceptual contributions. The new advances offered by this broad spectrum of topics will be of interest not only to social psychologists, but also to sociologists and political scientists.
List of contents
I. Introduction.- 1 Psychological Processes in Intergroup Conflict.- II. Cognitive and Motivational Bases of Conflict.- 2 Judgmental Processes as Bases of Intergroup Conflict.- 3 Attributional Bases of Intergroup Conflict.- 4 Conflict as a Cognitive Schema: Toward a Social Cognitive Analysis of Conflict and Conflict Termination.- III. The Maintenance of Conflict.- 5 Social Identity and Intergroup Conflict: An Israeli view.- 6 Political Terrorism: A Social Psychological Perspective.- IV. The Resolution of Conflict.- 7 Bargaining and Arbitration in the Resolution of Conflict.- VIII Table of Contents.- 8 Negotiating with Terrorists.- 9 Intergroup Contact, Cultural Information, and Change in Ethnic Attitudes.- 10 Familiarity May Breed Contempt: The Impact of Student Exchange on National Stereotypes and Attitudes.- Author Index.
About the author
Wolfgang Stroebe has taught social psychology at universities in the UK, Germany and the USA and is now Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Utrecht. He has authored or co-authored five books and more than a hundred scientific articles and chapters on topics of social and health psychology.
Daniel Bar-Tal is Professor of Social Psychology at the School of Education, Tel-Aviv University. He is the Coeditor in Chief of the Palestine Israel Journal, Director of the Walter Lebach Research Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence Through Education, and Co-Director of the European Summer Institute in Political Psychology.
Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oxford.
