Multiple Social Categorization

Richard Crisp is a Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Birmingham. His research focuses on cognitive, motivational, and affective models of social categorization, group processes, and intergroup relations. He is a past winner of the British Psychology Society’s award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contribution to Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues Louise Kidder Early Career Award for his work on multiple social categorization.Miles Hewstone is Professor of Social Psychology and Fellow of New College, Oxford. He has published widely on the topics of attribution theory, social cognition, stereotyping, social influence, and intergroup relations. He is co-founding editor of the European Review of Social Psychology, a former editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and is a past winner of the British Psychology Society’s Spearman Medal and Presidents' Award.

• Part 1. Introduction. R.J. Crisp, M. Hewstone, Multiple social categorization: Context, process, and social consequences. Part 2. Multiple Category Representation. C. McGarthy, Hierarchies and minority groups: The roles of salience, overlap and background knowledge in selecting meaningful social categorizations from multiple alternatives. E.R. Smith, Multiply categorizable social objects: representational models and some potential determinants of category use. Part 3. Multiple Categorization and Social Judgement. J.F. Dovidio, S.L. Gaertner, G. Hodson, B.M. Riek, K.M. Johnson, M. Houlette, Recategorization and crossed categorization: The implications of group salience and representations for reducing bias. R.J. Crisp, Commitment and categorization in common ingroup contexts. M.A. Hogg, M.J. Hornsey, Self-concept threat and multiple categorization within groups. Part 4. Cross-Cutting Categorization and Evaluation. N. Miller, J. Kenworthy, C.J. Canales, D.M. Stenstrom, Explaining the effects of crossed categorization on ethnocentric bias. T.K. Vescio, C.M. Judd, P. Chua, The crossed categorization hypothesis: cognitive mechanisms and patterns of intergroup bias. R. Singh, Gender among multiple social categories: Social attraction in women but interpersonal attraction in men. Part 5. Broader Perspectives. J. Phinney, L.L. Alipuria, Multiple social categorization and identity among among multiracial, multiethnic, and multicultural individuals: Processes and implications. N.A. Carter, Political institutions and multiple social identities. Part 6. Conclusion. M. Hewstone, R. Turner, J. Kenworthy, R.J. Crisp, Multiple social categorization: Future directions.

'This book makes a compelling case that multiple categorization is the single most important question in the domain of social categorization. The 12 chapters in the book provide a comprehensive and scholarly review of the important literature in this field.' - Charles Stangor, University of Maryland.