European Journal of Social Psychology May-June 2000 [antikvár]

Abstract Social psychologists possess considerable enthusiasm and expertise in the study of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination, having commenced in the 1920s and 1930s. Research and theory in the next three to four decades focused on motivation, followed by a reactively exclusive focus on cognition in the 1970s and early 1980s, in turn followed by a 1990s joint focus on cognition and motivation. Throughout, intra-individual conflict analyses have alternated with contextual analyses, though both clearly have merit. Based on a social evolutionary viewpoint, a few core social motives (belonging, understanding, controlling, enhancing, awúf trusting) account for much current research on interpersonal category-based responses. Trends for the future should entail more emphasis on behavior, more sensitivity to cultural specificities and universals, as weil as budding efforts on neural mechanisms of stereotyping, prejudice, arcd discrimination. Copyright 2000 John Wiley & Sons, In July 1999, the Oxford meeting of the European Association of Experimentál Social Psychology witnessed, out of 33jjOtal symposia, 13 focused on stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. In October 1999, the St Louis meeting of the American Society for Experimentál Social Psychology witnessed, out of 18 symposia, 6 on the sáme tópícTSnhr^m^bet^^n the centuries, Western social psychologists enthusiastically stitch away, tryingto mend intergroup tears in the fabric of society and to embroider iűtragroup patterns ofi3entit}|. The same social wear and tear motivated our forebears in the early part of the century, so perhaps a turn-of-the-century assessment is in order. This paper focuses on the interpersonal level of one person responding to another, based on that personXperceiversocial category. How have social psychologists approached this patchwork quilt of categorícal thoughts, feelings, and behavior? What have we done, what are we doing now, and what are we (maybe) going to do? For the better part of a century, researchers in stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination have focused on the mind, in both a cognitive and motivational sense. At ^j^pawiuaM n uian laMMBMBSBCKsanBM^ * Correspondence to: Susan Fiske, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 08544- 1010, USA. Copyright 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.