From Prejudice to Intergroup Emotions: Differentiated Reactions to Social Groups

Despite the insights afforded by traditional work on prejudice, understanding intergroup relations now appears to demand knowledge of the antecedents, nature, and consequences of much more complex, modulated, and differentiated reactions to both ingroups and outgroups. The theories or programs of research described in the chapters of this book move beyond the traditional evaluation model of prejudice, drawing on a broad range of theoretical ancestry to develop models of why, when, and how differentiated reactions to groups arise, and what their consequences might be. The chapters have in common a re-focusing of interest on emotion as a theoretical base for understanding differentiated reactions to, and differentiated behaviors toward, social groups. Emotions are seen as arising as events impinging on groups with which one socially identifies, and they regulate responses both within the group and among groups. The contributions also share a focus on specific interactional and structural relations among groupsas a source of these differentiated emotional reactions. The chapters in the volume thus reflect a theoretical shift from an earlier emphasis on knowledge about ingroups and outgroups to a new perspective on prejudice in which socially-grounded emotional differentiation becomes a basis for social regulation.

D.M. Mackie, E.R. Smith, Beyond Prejudice: Moving from Positive and Negative Evaluations to Differentiated Reactions to Social Groups. A. Bizman, Y. Yinon, Social-Self Discrepancies and Group-Based Emotional Distress. J.Y. Shah, P.C. Brazy, E.T. Higgins, Promotion and Prevention Forms of Intergroup Bias. N.R. Brascombe, B. Doosje, C. McGarty, Antecedents and Consequences of Collective Guilt. V. Yzerbyt, M. Dumont, E. Gordijn, D. Wigboldus, Intergroup Emotions and Self-Categorization: The Impact of Perspective-taking on Reactions to Victims of Harmful Behavior. J. Blascovich, W.B. Mendes, M.D. Sneery, Intergroup Encounters and Threat: A Multi-Method Approach. T. Devos, L.A. Silver, D.M. Mackie, E.R. Smith, Experiencing Intergroup Emotions. J-P. Leyens, S. Demoulin, M. Desert, J. Vaes, P. Philippot, Expressing Emotions and Decoding Them: In-groups and Out-groups do not Share the Same Advantages. J.F. Dovidio, V.M. Esses, K.R. Beach, S.L. Gaertner, The Role of Affect in Determining Intergroup Behavior: The Case of Willingness to Engage in Intergroup Contact. R.M. Kramer, J.T. Jost, Close Encounters of the Suspicious Kind: Outgroup Paranoia in Hierarchical Trust Dilemmas. W.G Stephan, C. Lausanne Renfro, The Role of Threat in Intergroup Relations. M.B. Brewer, M.G. Alexander, Intergroup Emotions and Images. J.T. Jost, R.M. Kramer, The System Justification Motive in Intergroup Relations. S.T. Fiske, A.J.C. Cuddy, P. Glick, Emotions Up and Down: Intergroup Emotions Result from Perceived Status and Competition. S.L. Neuberg, C.A. Cotrell, Intergroup Emotions: A Biocultural Approach. E.R. Smith, D.M. Mackie, Commentary.