Table of Contents

1. Introduction Iain Walker and Heather Smith; Part I. Specification: 2. Group deprivation, collective threat, and racial resentment: perspectives on white racism Marylee C. Taylor; 3. Understanding the nature of group deprivation: does group-based deprivation involve fair outcomes or fair treatment? Tom R. Tyler and E. Allan Lind; 4. Relative deprivation and intergroup attitudes: South Africa before and after the transition John Duckitt and Thobi Mputhing; 5. Is it just me? The different consequences of personal and group relative deprivation Heather J. Smith and Daniel J. Ortiz; Part II. Development: 6. Personal and group relative deprivation: connecting the 'I' to the 'we' Francine Tougas and Ann M. Beaton; 7. 'Poisoning the consciences of the fortunate': the experience of relative advantage and support Colin Wayne Leach, Nastia Snider and Aarti Iyer; 8. The embeddedness of social comparison C. David Gartrell; 9. Japanese and American reactions to gender discrimination Matthew Crosby, Kazuho Ozawa and Faye Crosby; 10. Collective action in response to disadvantage: intergroup perceptions, social identification, and social change Stephen C. Wright and Linda R. Tropp; Part III. Integration: 11. Social identity and relative deprivation Naomi Ellemers; 12. Relative deprivation and counterfactual thinking James M. Olson and Neal J. Roese; 13. Relative deprivation and attribution: from grievance to action Iain Walker, Ngai Kin Wong and Kerry Kretzschmar; 14. Spontaneous temporal and social comparisons in children's conflict narratives Anne Wilson, Etsuko Hoshino-Browne and Michael Ross; 15. Prejudice as intergroup emotion: integrating relative deprivation and social comparison Eliot R. Smith and Colin Ho; Part IV. Conclusion: 16. Conclusion Thomas F. Pettigrew.

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This book, first published in 2001, features integrative theoretical and empirical work from social psychology, sociology, and psychology.