Prejudice : the target's perspective / edited by Janet K. Swim, Charles Stangor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Swim, Janet K.

Stangor, Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prejudices.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Academic Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book turns the tables on the way prejudice has been looked at in the past. Almost all of the current information on prejudice focuses on the person holding prejudiced beliefs. This book, however, provides the first summary of research focusing on the intended victims of prejudice. Divided into three sections, the first part discusses how people identify prejudice, what types of prejudice they encounter, and how people react to this prejudice in interpersonal and intergroup settings. The second section discusses the effect of prejudice on task performance, assessment of ones own abilities,

Contents:

Front Cover; Prejudice: The Target's Perspective; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Current Research; Consequences of Studying the Target's Perspective; References; Part I: Encountering Prejudice; Chapter 1. Appraisals of Prejudice and Discrimination; Signal Detection Theory; Primary Appraisals of Threat from a Signal Detection Theory Perspective; Signal Detection Theory and Perceptions of Prejudice; Appraisals of Prejudice: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Judgments under Uncertainty; Discussion and Future Research; References

Chapter 2. Experiencing Everyday Prejudice and DiscriminationAnticipating Encounters; Encountering Prejudice and Discrimination; Responding to Prejudice and Discrimination; Conclusion; Appendix; References; Chapter 3. No Laughing Matter: Women'S Verbal and Nonverbal Reactions to Sexist Humor; Sexist Humor as Subtle Prejudice; Individual Differences in Responses to Sexist Humor; Women's Verbal and Nonverbal Responses to Sexist Humor; Conclusions; References; Part II: Consequences of Prejudice; Chapter 4. Stereotype Threat and the Academic Underperformance of Minorities and Women

Stereotype Threat DefinedElements of the Stereotype-Threat Model; Support for the Stereotype-Threat Model; The Situational Inducement of Stereotype Threat; Mediation of Stereotype Threat; Reducing Stereotype Threat and Disidentification; References; Chapter 5. Conceptualizing the Determinants of Academic Choice and Task Performance Across Social GROUPS; Differences and Their Magnitude; Existing Models; Four Sources of Influence on Task Choice; Comparisons and Interrelations among the Influences; References; Chapter 6. Vulnerability to the Affective Consequences of the Stigma of Overweight

Individual Vulnerability FactorsExamining Individual Vulnerability Factors; Context-Dependent Vulnerability: Dating Studies; Conclusions; References; Chapter 7. Stress and Oppressed Social Category Membership; Stress as Environmental Demand: Prejudice-Linked Events; Psychological Tradition: Primary and Secondary Appraisal; "Biological" Tradition: Emotional and Physical Responses and Outcomes; Summary, Comments, and Integration; References; Chapter 8. Undermined? Affirmative Action from the Targets' Point of View; Definitions; The Claim; The Evidence; Our Survey; Parting Wishes; References

Part III: Coping with PrejudiceChapter 9. Compensating for Prejudice: How Heavyweight People (and others) Control Outcomes Despite Prejudice; Why Heavyweight People (and Others) Need to Compensate; An Experimental Demonstration of Compensation; Dimensions of Compensation; Evidence of Primary Compensation by Stigmatized People; Outcomes of Compensation; Prejudice: Whose Problem Is It?; Summary; References; Chapter 10. Coping with Stigma through Psychological Disengagement; Psychological Disengagement and Disidentification among the Stigmatized

Coping with Negative Stereotypes through Disengagement: The Case of African Americans and Intellectual Ability

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-04694-9

9786611046941

0-08-053944-0

OCLC:

476104498