Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Social, cultural and cognitive factors in stereotype formation
- 2 Stereotype formation as category formation
- 3 Subjective essentialism and the emergence of stereotypes
- 4 The role of theories in the formation of stereotype content
- 5 Illusory correlation and stereotype formation: making sense of group differences and cognitive biases
- 6 Dependence and the formation of stereotyped beliefs about groups: from interpersonal to intergroup perception
- 7 Four degrees of stereotype formation: differentiation by any means necessary
- 8 From personal pictures in the head to collective tools in the world: how shared stereotypes allow groups to represent and change social reality
- 9 Conclusion: stereotypes are selective, variable and contested explanations
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Social, cultural and cognitive factors in stereotype formation
- 2 Stereotype formation as category formation
- 3 Subjective essentialism and the emergence of stereotypes
- 4 The role of theories in the formation of stereotype content
- 5 Illusory correlation and stereotype formation: making sense of group differences and cognitive biases
- 6 Dependence and the formation of stereotyped beliefs about groups: from interpersonal to intergroup perception
- 7 Four degrees of stereotype formation: differentiation by any means necessary
- 8 From personal pictures in the head to collective tools in the world: how shared stereotypes allow groups to represent and change social reality
- 9 Conclusion: stereotypes are selective, variable and contested explanations
- References
- Author index
- Subject index
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- Stereotypes as ExplanationsThe Formation of Meaningful Beliefs about Social Groups, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002