Social Psychology of Social Problems

Applied Social Psychology; A.Golec de Zavala and A.Cichocka
PART I: RACISM, SEXISM AND SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION
Negative Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination; J.C.Cohrs and T.Kessler
The Social Context of Racism; C.M.Federico
Antecedents and Manifestations of Sexism; J.Pietrzak
Towards an Understanding of Immigration as a Defining Feature of the 21st Century; L.Hamilton, S.Medianu and V.M.Esses
PART II: INEQUALITY, TYRANNY, VIOLENT AND NON-VIOLENT SOCIAL PROTEST
The Corrupting Power of Social Inequality: Social-psychological Consequences, Causes and Solutions; R.Sutton, A.Cichocka and J.van der Toorn
Social Conflict and Social Protest; J.van Stekelenburg and B.Klandermans
Obedience and Tyranny in Psychology and History; S.Reicher and A.Haslam
PART III: INTERGROUP VIOLENCE, EXTREMISM AND TERRORISM
Extreme Forms of In-group Positivity and Their Negative Consequences for Intergroup Relations; A.Golec de Zavala and R.Schatz
Intractable Conflicts: Why Society Members Tend to Support Their Continuation and Resist Their Peaceful Resolution; D.Bar-Tal, E.Halperin, R.Porat and R.Nets-Zehngut
Evil Transformations: Social Psychological Processes Underlying Genocide and Mass Killing; M.Bilewicz and J.R.Vollhardt
The Social Psychology of Terrorism: Individual, Group and Organizational Processes; K.Sharvit and A.Kruglanski
PART IV: TOWARDS APPLYING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Applying Social Psychology to Understanding Social Problems; R.Ruiter, K.Massar, M.van Vugt and G.Kok

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala is Marie Curie Fellow at the Social Intervention and Research Centre at the Lisbon University Institute, Portugal. She has previously worked at Middlesex University, UK, and has published over 20 papers in academic journals. Her research interests include predictors of inter-group hostility, prejudice and inter-group conflict.

Aleksandra Cichocka is a doctoral student at the Center for Research on Prejudice at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests include group identity, inter-group relations and political ideology.