Group Motivation: Social Psychological Perspectives

Preface and introduction, M. Hogg and D. Abrams the role of distinctiveness in social identity and group behaviour, M. Brewer strategies in intergroup relations, A. van Knippenberg and N. Ellemers ethnolinguistic vitality - some motivational and cognitive considerations, I. Sachdev and R. Bourhis prejudice, intergroup behaviour, and self-esteem - enhancement and protection motives, J. Crocker, B. Blaine, et al freezing intergroup evaluations - anxiety fosters resistance to counterstereotypic information, D. Wilder on the failure to see oneself as disadvantaged - cognitive and emotional components, F. Crosby, D. Cordova, et al group socialization - the role of commitment. R. Moreland, J. Levine, et al working on collective tasks - social loafing and social compensation, K. Williams, S. Karau, et al the individual group dichotomy, N. Miller and H. Harrington towards a single-process uncertainty - reduction model of social motivation in groups, M. Hogg and D. Abrams.