Contextual Social Psychology: Reanalyzing Prejudice, Voting, and Intergroup Contact

Using vivid examples of both historical and current events, acclaimed scholar Thomas Pettigrew’s compelling book advocates for a robust contextual social psychology, maintaining that far more attention should be paid to the social context of various phenomena relevant in the world today. Copyright 2022.

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• Define contextual social psychology.
• Describe the advantages of contextual analysis for social psychology.
• Apply contextual analysis to intergroup prejudice, relative deprivation, intergroup contact, and far-right voting patterns.
• Discuss future directions for contextual social psychology.