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Stereotype, Prejudice, and Discrimination: Changing Conceptions in Theory and Research

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Stereotyping and Prejudice

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Readers of the chapters on prejudice and discrimination in the three editions of the Handbook of Social Psychology (Harding, Kutner, Proshansky, & Chein, 1954; Harding, Proshansky, Kutner, & Chein, 1969; Stephan, 1985) will be impressed by the reduction in theoretical perspectives which this area seems to have experienced within the space of less than two decades. While the earlier chapters (Harding et al., 1954, 1969) approached prejudice and stereotypes from multiple theoretical perspectives, covering psychoanalytic, sociological, developmental, and personality-oriented explanations, Stephan’s (1985) chapter focuses only on one perspective, the cognitive approach.

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  1. School of Education, Tel-Aviv University, 69978, Tel-Aviv, Israel

    Daniel Bar-Tal

  2. Psychologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, D-6900, Heidelberg 1, Federal Republic of Germany

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  3. Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, 20742, College Park, MD, USA

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  4. Psychologisches Institut, Universität Tübingen, 7400, Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Wolfgang Stroebe

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Stroebe, W., Insko, C.A. (1989). Stereotype, Prejudice, and Discrimination: Changing Conceptions in Theory and Research. In: Bar-Tal, D., Graumann, C.F., Kruglanski, A.W., Stroebe, W. (eds) Stereotyping and Prejudice. Springer Series in Social Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3582-8_1

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