3rd Edition

Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination

Edited By Todd D. Nelson Copyright 2025
556 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

556 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

556 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This new edition of this bestselling handbook offers a comprehensive and scholarly overview of the latest research on prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination. Now in its third edition, the book provides a full update of its highly successful predecessor and features new material on topics such as antisemitism, mental illness stigma, sexual and gender identity prejudice, anti-fat prejudice,... Read more

Part 1: Origins of Prejudice

1.     Evolutionary approaches to understanding prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination

            Angela G. Pirlott & Corey L. Cook

2.     Limitations, contestations, failures, and falsifications of dramatic claims in intergroup Relations

            Lee Jussim, Sonia Yanovsky, Akeela Careem, Nathan Honeycutt, & Danica Finkelstein

Part 2: Cognitive, Affective, and Motivational Processes in Prejudice

3.     The social neuroscience of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination

            Margaret Welte, Jennifer T. Kubota, & Jasmin Cloutier

4.     Beyond performance: Stereotype and social identity threat in context

            Katherine T. U. Emerson, Valerie J. Taylor, Samantha M. Stevens, Christine Logel, & Mary C. Murphy

5.     Prejudice, left and right: Ideological differences and similarities in prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination

             Chadly Stern and Benjamin Ruisch

Part 3: Targets of Prejudice

6.     Understanding age prejudice and its varied contexts in the 21st century and beyond

             Emily R. Ye & Michael S. North

7.     Hegemonic masculinity and sexism

Abigail J. Loviscky, Theresa K. Vescio, Katsumi Yamaguchi-Pedroza, Jude T. Sullivan, & Demet Basar

8.     The stigma of mental illness

             Jason Schnittker

9.     Ableism: The time has come to understand bias against people with disabilities

             Sydney Tran, Marisa Krauter, & Kathleen R. Bogart

10.  Anti-Fat prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination

             Rebecca L. Pearl & Lecsy Gonzalez

11.  The psychology of contemporary antisemitism

             Neil J. Kressel

12.  Sexual and gender identity prejudice

            Mary E. Kite, Lisa S. Wagner, & M. J. Schneider

13.  “Go back to your country”: Anti-immigrant prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination

            Rama Eloulabi, Bidushy Sadika, & Victoria M. Esses

Part 4: Reducing Prejudice

14.  Children’s prejudice development and reduction: Challenges and opportunities

            Katharine E. Scott, Kristin Shutts, & Patricia G. Devine 

15.  Interpersonal confrontation of bias

            Margo J. Monteith, Elisabeth S. Noland, & Anna Haoyang Li

16.  How social categorization shapes intergroup contact: Implications for understanding Group members’ subjective experiences and prospects for achieving attitude Generalization

            Linda R. Tropp, Liora Morhayim, & Lusine Grigoryan

17. Motivation to respond without prejudice: Antecedents and consequences

            E. Ashby Plant, Trisha Dutta, & Stephanie R. Mallinas

 

Biography

Todd D. Nelson is a Professor of Psychology at California State University – Stanislaus. His research focuses on stereotypes and prejudice against older adults (ageism). He is a fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology, and has published several chapters on ageism. Professor Nelson has published widely in the field of prejudice and ageism.