Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Evolutionary origins of social responses to deviance
- 3 Mental representations of deviance and their emotional and judgmental implications
- 4 Meeting individuals with deviant conditions: understanding the role of automatic and controlled psychological processes
- 5 Individual differences in responding to deviance
- 6 Variations in social control across societies, cultures, and historical periods
- 7 A focus on persons with a deviant condition I: their social world, coping, and behavior
- 8 A focus on persons with a deviant condition II: socio-economic status, self-esteem and well-being
- 9 Theorizing about interventions to prevent or reduce stigmatization
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
5 - Individual differences in responding to deviance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Evolutionary origins of social responses to deviance
- 3 Mental representations of deviance and their emotional and judgmental implications
- 4 Meeting individuals with deviant conditions: understanding the role of automatic and controlled psychological processes
- 5 Individual differences in responding to deviance
- 6 Variations in social control across societies, cultures, and historical periods
- 7 A focus on persons with a deviant condition I: their social world, coping, and behavior
- 8 A focus on persons with a deviant condition II: socio-economic status, self-esteem and well-being
- 9 Theorizing about interventions to prevent or reduce stigmatization
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction
Summary
Introduction
As noted in Chapter 1, the social psychological literature uses the term “prejudice” to refer to an individual's tendency or disposition to respond negatively to deviant individuals or groups. Following the relevant literature, we will use this term, in addition to terms such as negative responses or responding to deviance, quite frequently in this chapter. Now suppose one is asked to predict the degree of prejudice of an arbitrary inhabitant of our earth. A likely answer is to say that “it depends” and that more information about that person will make for a better prediction. We agree and will attempt to present in this chapter some of that information. We will discuss effects of individual differences and demographic characteristics on prejudice and responses to deviance. Most readers will know some people with rather strong negative responses to many deviant individuals or groups and who may even dislike all kinds of people with deviant conditions. We will attempt to demonstrate that such negative response tendencies can be seen as resulting from the operation of two important motivational systems, namely the FF and C system, which were introduced in Chapters 2 and 3, and which are supposed to underlie different types of social control, such as stigmatization and repair.
The most convincing way of demonstrating relationships between the FF and C system, on the one hand, and negative response tendencies to deviance, on the other hand, would be to have direct measurements of the strength of those systems and relate these to responses to deviance.
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- Stigmatization, Tolerance and RepairAn Integrative Psychological Analysis of Responses to Deviance, pp. 163 - 183Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007