Inhalt:

Danger, Disease, an the Nature of Prejudice(s)
1. Introduction
2. An Evolutionary Perspective on Threats and Prejudice(s)
3. Functional Specificity: Different Threats Elicit Different Prejudices
4. Further Implications: Adaptive Error Management and Context Contingency
5. Violence, Vulnerability, and Implications for Prejudices
6. Infectious Disease and Its Implications for Prejudices
7. Implications for a "Prejudiced Personality"
8. Implications for Interventions
9. The Nature of Prejudice

Biosocial Construction of Sex Differences and Similarities in Behavior
1. Introduction
2. Divided Labor
3. Socialization
4. Cultural Beliefs About Gender
5. Gender Roles Shape Social Behavior
6. Sex Differences and Similarities in Psychological Research
7. Psychological Sex Differences and Similarities in Contemporary Nations
8. Conclusion

The Imagined Contact Hypothesis
1. Introduction
2. Principles, Paradigm, and Theory
3. Outcomes
4. Underlying Processes
5. Moderating Conditions
6. Practical and Paradigmatic Implementations
7. Theoretical Implications and Suggestions for Future Research
8. Conclusions

Making Heroes: The Construction of Courage, Competence, and Virtue
1. Introduction
2. Part I. The Naive Psychology of Heroism: Profiles in Courage and Competence
3. Part II. Behaving Heroically: Making Moral Choices and Accomplishing Difficult Tasks
4. Part III. Needing and Shaping Heroes
5. Part IV. A Social Influence-Based Taxonomy of Heroes
6. Conclusion

The Effects of Past Behavior an Future Goal-Directed Activity
1. A Description of Goal-Directed Processing
2. The Role of Plans in Deliberate Goal-Directed Behavior: The Impact of Behavioral Mind-sets
3. The Effect of Productions I: Attention and Information Seeking
4. The Effect of Productions II: Comprehension
5. The Effect of Productions III: Overt Behavior
6. Relation to Other Formulations
7. Concluding Remarks

Effectiveness in Humans and Other Animals: A Common Basis for Well-being and Welfare
1. Value Effectiveness: Motivation to Have Desired Results
2. Truth Effectiveness: Motivation to Establish What Is Real
3. Control Effectiveness: Motivation to Manage What Happens
4. Animal Welfare
5. Human Well-being

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Serie / Reihe: Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Schlagwörter: Motivation Sozialpsychologie Vorurteil Kompetenz Geschlechtsunterschied Sozialverhalten Verhaltensforschung Wohlbefinden Geschlechterrolle Tugend Effektivität Tapferkeit Inter-Gruppenkonflikt

Interessenkreis: Fremdsprachig