1st Edition

Stereotype Dynamics Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes

Edited By Yoshihisa Kashima, Klaus Fiedler, Peter Freytag Copyright 2008

    This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the socio-cultural context. Stereotype Dynamics assembles top researchers in the field to investigate stereotype formation, maintenance, and transformation through interpersonal facets of communication.Section

    Y. Kashima, K. Fiedler,P. Freytag, Stereotype Dynamics: An Introduction and Overview.Part1.Stereotype Dynamics. G. Semin, Stereotypes in the Wild. V. Yzerbyt,A. Carnaghi, Stereotype Change in the Social Context. A. Lyons, A. Clark, Y. Kashima,T. Kurz, Cultural Dynamics of Stereotyping. Part2.Symbolic Mediation and Stereotyping. K. Fiedler, M. Blümke, P. Freytag, S. Koch,C. Unkelbach, A Semiotic Approach to Understanding the Role of Communication in Stereotyping. A. Carnaghi,A. Maass, Derogatory Language in Intergroup Context: Are “Gay” and “Fag” Synonymous? S. Sczesny, J. Bosak, A.B. Diekman,J. Twenge, Dynamics of Sex Role Stereotypes.Part3.Stereotype and Language Use. C. Wenneker,D. Wigboldus, Interpersonal Consequences and Intrapersonal Underpinnings of the Linguistic Expectancy Bias. K.M. Douglas, R.M. Sutton,C. McGarty, Strategic Language Use in Interpersonal and Intergroup Communication. P. Freytag, Sender-Receiver-Constellations as a Moderator of Linguistic Abstraction Biases. Part4.Stereotype Sharedness and Distinctiveness. M. Karasawa,S. Suga, Retention and Transmission of Socially Shared Beliefs: The Role of Linguistic Abstraction in Stereotypic Communication. O. Klein, S. Tindale,M. Brauer, The Consensualization of Stereotypes in Small Groups. F. Pratto, P.J. Hegarty,J.D. Korchmaros, How Communication Practices and Category Norms Lead People to Stereotype Particular People and Groups. Part5.Identity, Self-Regulation, and Stereotyping. M. Hornsey, Intergroup Sensitivity Effect: Responses to Criticisms of Groups. R.M. Sutton, K.M. Douglas, T.J. Elder,M. Tarrant, Social Identity and Social Convention in Responses to Criticisms of Groups. J. Keller,H. Bless, Communicating Stereotype Expectancies: The Interplay of Stereotype Threat and Regulatory Focus.

    Biography

    Yoshihisa Kashima, Klaus Fiedler, Peter Freytag