Stereotype Dynamics ― Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes

This volume addresses the role of communication in stereotype dynamics, while placing the phenomenon of social stereotypes appropriately in the socio-cultural context. Stereotype Dynamics assembles top researchers in the field to investigate stereotype formation, maintenance, and transformation through interpersonal facets of communication.
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Section one presents meta-theoretical perspectives, strongly informed by theories and empirical research. Subsequent parts address the following research questions in the perspectives of language-based communication:
*What do the signs in a language mean, and how do the meanings of the signs shape stereotypes?
*How do people use those signs intentionally or unintentionally? Is language use biased in some way?
*How do language users’ identities affect the meaning of a particular language use in social context?
*What are the social consequences of language-based communication? Does language-based communication provide a basis for the formation, maintenance, and transformation or social stereotypes?
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This timely book is ideal for advanced students, scholars, and researchers in social psychology, and related disciplines such as human communications and socio linguistics. It is also appropriate for use as a supplement in upper level courses on prejudice and stereotyping.

Yoshi Kashima is associate professor of psychology at the University of Melbourne in Australia. An editorial board member of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Interpersonal Relations and Group Processes, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Dr.
Kashima received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Klaus Fielder is a professor of social psychology at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. An associate editor of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Dr. Fiedler received his Ph.D. from the University of Giessen.
Peter Freytag is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany where he received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 2001.