MAASAI MARA UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY CATALOGUE

Contact Us: +254 020 2685356/7 or 0774 057787

Box: 861-20500, NAROK, KENYA

Email: info@mmarau.ac.ke

Understanding the psychology of diversity /

Blaine, Bruce Evan.

Understanding the psychology of diversity / Bruce Evan Blaine. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2007 - xv, 256p. : ill. ;

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-278) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the psychology of diversity -- Categories and stereotypes : cognitive processes that shape diversity -- Self-fulfilling prophecy and stereotypic communication : social processes that shape diversity -- Prejudice : evaluating social difference -- Understanding race, racial stereotypes, and racism -- Understanding gender stereotypes and sexism -- Understanding obesity stereotypes and weightism -- Understanding moral prejudice : classism and homosexism -- Understanding age stereotypes and ageism -- Social stigma: the experience of prejudice -- Coping with social stigma -- Responding to social inequality : behavioral and cognitive interventions for reducing prejudice.

978412921084


Prejudices.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Multiculturalism--Psychological aspects.

HM1091 / .B54 2007
© 2016 Maasai Mara University.