Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination Page 1 6 INTERGROUP EMOTIONS
THEORY Diane M. Mackie UNIvERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, Angela T …

Recent advances in understanding prejudice and intergroup behavior have made clear that
emotions help explain people's reactions to social groups and their members. Intergroup …

Intergroup emotions theory seeks to understand and improve intergroup relations by
focusing on the emotions engendered by belonging to, and by deriving identity from, a social …

Current emotion research and theory generally assume that emotions are adaptive and
functional, with a strong focus on their functionality at the biological or individual level. This …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses applications of emotion theory and research to
stereotyping and intergroup relations. Specific emotions are associated with a limited …

Prejudice entails systematically different reactions to different kinds of outgroups, and many
of these reactions are ambivalent, in the sense of reflecting simultaneously positive and …

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 …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses social identity and social emotions. Specific
stereotypic beliefs may be positive or negative in evaluative tone, and may be thought to …

There is no area of social psychology that does not involve emotions. Not only has social
psychology contributed enormously to theory and research on the nature of emotions, it also …

If people favor their ingroup, are especially concerned with their own group, and attribute
different essences to different groups, it follows that their essence must be superior to the …