Relations between groups, for example those based on race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, ability, and socio-economic status, provide the context for everyday life. Intergroup relations frame the way we define ourselves and others, the way we behave, and the way in which we treat and think about others, and how they treat and think about us. Consider how profoundly affected everyday life is by whether relations between groups are harmonious and peaceful, or conflictual and hostile. Not surprisingly, intergroup relations is an exhilarating core topic in social psychology; a topic which connects social psychology with other social sciences, and which challenges social psychology to marshal and to integrate concepts relating to individual cognition, social interaction, and social history. This book is a collection of classic and contemporary readings that help to define the social psychological study of intergroup relations. In making the selections, the editors have tried to capture the diversity and complexity of the topic, as well as some of the major controversies, but with an eye for choosing readings that are accessible to and engaging for students and others who are new to the area.

Table of Contents:
About the Editors. Preface. Acknowledgments. Volume Overview, M. Hogg and D.Abrams. Part 1: Personality and Individual Differences, Personality and Sociocultural Factors in Intergroup Attitudes: A Cross-national Comparison T. Pettigrew. Social Dominance Orientation: A Personality Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes, F. Pratto, J. Sidanius, L. M. Stallworth, and B. Malle. Part 2: Goal Relations and Interdependence, Superordinate Goals in the Reduction of Intergroup Conflicts. M. Sherif, Perceptions of Racial Group Competition: Extending Blumer's Theory of Group Position to a Multiracial Social Context, L. Bobo and V. Hutchings. Part 3: Social Identity and Self-Categorization, An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflicts, H. Tajfel and J. Turner, Intergroup Relations and Group Solidarity: Effects of Group Identification and Social Beliefs on Depersonalized Attraction, M. Hogg and S. Hains, Part 4: Intergroup Attitudes and Explanations, Social Stereotypes and Social Groups, H. Tajfel. Affirmative Action, Unintentional Racial Biases, and Intergroup Relations, J. Dovidio and S. Gaertner. The Ultimate Attribution Error: Extending Allport's Cognitive Analysis of Prejudice, T. Pettigrew, Part 5: Intergroup Behavior and Discrimination, Experiments in Intergroup Discimination, H. Tajfel, Intergroup Discrimination in Positive and Negative Outcome Allocations: Impact of Stimulus Valence, Relative Group Status, and Relative Group Size, S. Otten, A. Mummendey, and M. Blanz, Understanding Why the Justice of Group Procedures Matters: A Test of the Psychological Dynamics of the Group-Value Model, T. Tyler, P. DeGoey, and H. Smith. Part 6: Motives for Group Membership and Intergroup Behavior, Comments on the Motivational Status of Self-Esteem in Social Identity and Intergroup, Discrimination, D. Abrams and M. Hogg. The Social Self: On Being the Same and Different at the Same Time, M. Brewer. Negotiating Social Identity When Contexts Change: Maintaining Identification and Responding to Threat, K. Ethier and K. Deaux. Part 7: Influence in Intergroup Context, Knowing What to Think by Knowing Who You Are: Self-Categorization ad the Nature of Norm Function, Conformity, ad Group Polarization, D. Abrams, M. Wetherell, S. Cochrane, M. Hogg, and J. Turner, Studies in Social Influence: V Minority Influence and Conversion Behavior in a Perceptual Task, S. Moscovici and B. Personnaz. Part 8: Disadvantage, Relative Deprivation, and Social Protest, The St. Pauls Riot: An Explanation of the Limits of Crowd Action in Terms of a Social Identity Model, S. D. Reicher. Race and Relative Deprivation in the Urban United States, R. D. Vaneman, and T. Pettigrew. Responding to Membership in a Disadvantaged Group S. Wright, D.M. Taylor, and F. Moghaddam. Part 9: Intergroup Contact and Social Harmony, Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Benefits of Recategorization, S. Gaertner, J.Man, A. Murrell, J. Dovidio, Intergroup Contact: The Typical Member ad the Exception to the Rule, D. Wilder, Dimensions of Contact as Predictors of Intergroup Anxiety, Perceived Outgroup Variability, and Outgroup Attitude: An Integrative Model, M. Rabiul Islam and M. Hewstone, References, Appendix: How to Read a Journal Article in Social Psychology, C. H. Jordan and M. Zanna, Author Index, Subject Index.