Affect, Cognition and Stereotyping: Interactive Processes in Group Perception

This volume presents a collection of chapters exploring the interface of cognitive and affective processes in stereotyping. Stereotypes and prejudice have long been topics of interest in social psychology, but early literature and research in this area focused on affect alone, while later studies focused primarily on cognitive factors associated with information processing strategies. This volume integrates the roles of both affect and cognition with regard to the formation, representation, and modification of stereotypes and the implications of these processes for the escalation or amelioration of intergroup tensions.

Reviewed Development, maintenance, and change of stereotypes and prejudiceInteraction of affective and cognitive processes as antecendents of stereotyping and prejudiceAffect and cognitive consequences of group categorization, preception, and interactionThe interaction of cognitive and affective processes in social perceptionAward Winning Chapter "The Esses et al", was the 1992 winner of the Otto Klineberg award given by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, which cited the chapter as having offered, "a substantial advance in our understanding of basic psychological processes, underlying racism, stereotyping, and prejudice."

Cognitive and Affective Processes in Intergroup Perception: The Developing Interface
Emotions, Arousal, and Stereotypic Judgments: A Heuristic Model of Affect and Stereotyping
The Influence of Affect on Stereotyping: The Case of Illusory Correlations
Affect and Perceived Group Variability: Implications for Stereotyping and Prejudice
The Role of Anxiety in Facilitating Stereotypic Judgments of Out-Group Behavior
Cognition and Affect in Stereotyping: Parallel Interactive Networks
Values, Stereotypes, and Emotions as Determinants of Intergroup Attitudes
Stereotypes and Evaluative Intergroup Bias
Mere Exposure Effects With Outgroup Stimuli
Applications of Emotion Theory and Research to Stereotyping and Intergroup Relations
Negative Interdependence and Prejudice: Whence the Affect?
Stereotyping and Affect in Discourse: Interpreting the Meaning of Elderly Painful Self-Disclosure
Social Identity and Social Emotions: Toward New Conceptualizations of Prejudice
The Role of Discrepancy Associated Affect in Prejudice Reduction
Social Stigma: The Consequences of Attributional Ambiguity
Affect, Cognition, and Sterotyping: Concluding Comments