Contributors
Introduction: Charting New Pathways to Positive Intergroup
Relations
Linda R. Tropp and Robyn K. Mallett
I. Reconceptualizing Intergroup Attitudes
II. Motivations and Expectations Across Group Boundaries
III. Closeness and Inclusion in Cross-Group Relationships
IV. Applications to Postconflict Reconciliation
Conclusion: Positive Thoughts About Positive Approaches to
Intergroup Relations
Samuel L. Gaertner and John F. Dovidio
Index
About the Editors
Linda R. Tropp, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology
and director of the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research concerns how
members of different groups approach and experience contact with
one another, and how group differences in status affect cross-group
relations.
She received the Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from the
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, the Erikson
Early Career Award for distinguished research contributions from
the International Society of Political Psychology, and the
McKeachie Early Career Teaching Award from the Society for the
Teaching of Psychology.
Dr. Tropp is a Fellow of APA, the Society of Experimental Social
Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social
Issues.
She has been a visiting scholar at the University of California,
Berkeley; the Kurt Lewin Institute; the Marburg Center for Conflict
Studies; and the International Graduate College on Conflict and
Cooperation, where she taught seminars and workshops on prejudice
reduction and intervention.
She has collaborated with organizations in the United States to
present social science evidence in Supreme Court cases on racial
desegregation, worked on state initiatives designed to improve
interracial relations in schools, and partnered with varied
nongovernmental organizations to evaluate applied programs designed
to reduce racial and ethnic conflict.
She was coeditor of Improving Intergroup Relations (2008) and a
2006 special issue of the Journal of Social Issues on integrating
intergroup research and practice.
Robyn K. Mallett, PhD, is an assistant professor of
psychology at Loyola University Chicago. She completed her
bachelor's degree at the University of Alaska Anchorage; her PhD in
social psychology at the Pennsylvania State University, State
College; and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of
Virginia, Charlottesville.
Her research investigates pathways to positive intergroup relations
by examining the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components of
intergroup contact — specifically, how the accuracy of intergroup
expectations can be improved to increase the likelihood of positive
future contact, how targets of discrimination can proactively
protect themselves from the negative consequences of
discrimination, and how emotions motivate majority group members to
act on behalf of minority group members.
Dr. Mallett's investigation of the intergroup forecasting error was
funded by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation.
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