While I write this chapter, millions of people in the Darfur province of Sudan have been
terrorized off their land; the entire population of Iraq has little idea what the future of their …

This article expands the view of groups as information processors into a motivated
information processing in groups (MIP-G) model by emphasizing, first, the mixed-motive …

Immigration policies and the treatment of immigrants and refugees are contentious issues
involving uncertainty and unease. The media may take advantage of this uncertainty to …

Consumers tend to seek heuristic information cues to simplify the amount of information
involved in tourist decisions. Accordingly, star ratings in online reviews are a critical heuristic …

Historical records suggest that the political extremes—at both the “left” and the “right”—
substantially endorsed conspiracy beliefs about other-minded groups. The present …

Even though the motivation to feel worthy, to be respected, and to matter to others has been
identified for centuries by scholars, the antecedents, consequences, and conditions of its …

Although politics at the elite level has been polarized for some time, a scholarly controversy
has raged over whether ordinary Americans are polarized. This book argues that they are …

This chapter presents a number of convergent arguments and empirical evidence for a
unified theoretical approach that explains both intuitive and deliberate judgments as rule …

Applications and conceptual developments made in social identity research since the mid-
1990s are summarized under eight general headings: types of self and identity, prototype …

The social psychological literature on threat and defense is fragmented. Groups of
researchers have focused on distinct threats, such as mortality, uncertainty, uncontrollability …