Perception of disability is an important construct affecting not only the well-being of
individuals with disabilities, but also the moral compass of the society. Negative attitudes …

The present article presents a meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. With 713
independent samples from 515 studies, the meta-analysis finds that intergroup contact …

Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and
most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it …

Welcome to the third edition of The Psychology of Attitudes & Attitude Change. As you would
expect, this edition contains many new developments. As a starting point, Bas Verplanken …

A role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders proposes that perceived
incongruity between the female gender role and leadership roles leads to 2 forms of …

This chapter argues that sexism is, probably always has been, a special case of prejudice
marked by a deep ambivalence, rather than a uniform antipathy, toward women. Sexism has …

Evidence for the role of affective states in social judgments is reviewed, and a new
integrative theory, the affect infusion model (AIM), is proposed as a comprehensive …

This chapter has two main objectives: to review influential ideas and findings in the literature
and to outline the organization and content of the volume. The first part of the chapter lays a …

An I ntegrated Threat Theory of Prejudice Page 1 2 An I ntegrated Threat Theory of Prejudice
Walter G . Stephan Cookie White Stephan New Mexico State University "It was the best of times …

Early theorists assumed that sociopolitical or ideological attitudes were organized along a
single left‐right dimension and directly expressed a basic personality dimension. Empirical …