UID:
almahu_9947366776602882
Format:
1 online resource (385 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-78027-4
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9786613690661
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0-12-398262-6
Series Statement:
Advances in experimental social psychology ; v. 46
Content:
Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field. Containing contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest, this series represents the best and the brightest in new research, theory, and practice in social psychology. This serial is part of the Social Sciences package on ScienceDirect. Visit info.sciencedirect.com for more information. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology is available online on ScienceDirect - full-text online of volume 32 onward. Elsevier bo
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Advances In Experimental Social Psychology; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Chapter One:Danger, Disease, and the Nature of Prejudice(s); 1 Introduction; 1.1 The nature of prejudice; 2 An Evolutionary Perspective on Threats and Prejudice(s); 2.1 Prospects and perils in ancestral ecologies; 2.2 Prejudices as threat management mechanisms; 3 Functional Specificity: Different Threats Elicit Different Prejudices; 4 Further Implications: Adaptive Error Management and Context Contingency; 4.1 Signal detection and the smoke detector principle
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4.2 Costs, benefits, and the functional flexibility principle5 Violence, Vulnerability, and Implications for Intergroup Prejudices; 5.1 The enduring threat of intergroup violence within ancestral populations; 5.2 Implications for the psychology of prejudice; 5.3 Intergroup biases in the dark; 5.4 Vulnerability to harm and the misperception of outgroup emotions; 5.5 The consequences of feeling outnumbered in an ongoing ethnopolitical conflict; 5.6 Sex differences; 5.7 Attention to and memory for outgroup faces; 5.8 Summary; 6 Infectious Disease and Its Implications for Prejudices
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6.1 The enduring threat of infectious disease within ancestral populations6.2 Implications for the psychology of prejudice; 6.3 Wariness of people with unhealthy-looking faces; 6.4 Prejudicial cognitions about people who are elderly, physically disabled, or obese; 6.5 Xenophobia and ethnocentrism; 6.6 Summary; 7 Implications for a ``Prejudiced Personality ́ ́; 8 Implications for Interventions; 8.1 Insights into the successes and failures of other interventions; 8.2 Prejudice may be most effectively reduced by focusing on its precursors instead
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8.3 Different interventions are required to fight different prejudices9 The Nature of Prejudice(s); 9.1 Envoi; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter Two: Biosocial Construction of Sex Differences and Similarities in Behavior; 1 Introduction; 2 Divided Labor; 2.1 Division of labor in foraging societies; 2.2 Division of labor with socioeconomic developments; 2.3 Variability in power relationships between the sexes; 3 Socialization; 3.1 Socialization as a biosocial process; 3.2 Socialization mechanisms; 4 Cultural Beliefs About Gender; 4.1 Essentialism of beliefs about the sexes
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4.2 Implications of essentialist beliefs4.3 Actual change in gender stereotypes; 5 Gender Roles Shape Social Behavior; 5.1 Social psychological processes; 5.1.1 Effects of social expectations on behavior; 5.1.2 Effects of gender identity on behavior; 5.2 Biological processes; 5.3 Social psychological and biological processes work together: Stereotype threat; 6 Sex Differences and Similarities in Psychological Research; 7 Psychological Sex Differences and Similarities in Contemporary Nations; 7.1 Changes in psychological sex differences across historical time
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7.2 Variability in psychological sex differences across nations
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-394281-0
Language:
English
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