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Contributors; Introduction and Overview; Power, Self and Intergroup Relations; 1 Power and the Social Self; Abstract; Introduction; What is Power and How is it Attained?; Effects of Power, Theories, and Mechanisms; Functional Effects of Power Position: Default Attention and Flexibility; Flexibility: When the Powerful Pay Attention; Power, Goal Pursuit, and Social Behavior; Maintaining the Status Quo; Self-serving Goals; Dispositions and Power Roles Can Attenuate the Effects of Power; Power, Experiential Information, and Social Judgments; Power and Legitimacy.
Conclusions: An Integrated View of Power and the Social SelfReferences; 2 From a Sense of Self to Understanding Relations Between Social Groups; Abstract; Introduction; The Perception of "I": The First Notions of Identity; The Construction of the Self in Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Early Adolescence; Perceiving People in Childhood: The Development of an Understanding of Others; Children's Conceptions of the Structure of Society: Family, School, and Social Class; Children's Conceptions of Social Groups: National and Racial Groups; Conclusions; References.
3 Intergroup Relations and Strategies of MinoritiesAbstract; Introduction; Is There Power in the Few? Minorities and Their Challenges; Social Fight or Flight: Coping with Minority Status; Social Creativity; Prototypicality Matters: The Role of Superordinate Categories; Ingroup Projection in Asymmetric Intergroup Relations; Minorities' Ingroup Projection; The Role of Complexity; Negative Superordinate Categories; Minorities' Claiming Higher Prototypicality; Summary and Concluding Remarks; References; Social Construction of Identities and Social Categories.
4 "Back to the Future:" Ideological Dimensions of Intergroup RelationsAbstract; Introduction; Disentangling Racially Prejudiced and Non-racially Prejudiced Aspects of Color Blindness and Color Consciousness; Belief in a just World, Secondary Victimization, and Intergroup Relations; Graded Humanity Relies on Metaphorical Ideologies About Alterations of Humanness; Equalitarianism, Meritocracy, and Intergroup Relations; Egalitarianism, Meritocracy, and Infra-Humanization; Egalitarianism, Meritocracy, and Racial Prejudice; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References.
5 The Common Ingroup Identity Model and the Development of a Functional Perspective: A Cross-National CollaborationAbstract; Introduction; Social Categorization and Intergroup Biases; The Common Ingroup Identity Model; Common Superordinate Identity; Dual Identity; Majority and Minority Group Status: A Functional Perspective; Research Conducted with Children in Portugal Supports this Reasoning; Conclusion; Aknowledgments; References; 6 When Beliefs Become Stronger than Norms: Paradoxical Expressions of Intergroup Prejudice; Abstract; Introduction; Norms and Normative Social Influence.
Conclusions: An Integrated View of Power and the Social SelfReferences; 2 From a Sense of Self to Understanding Relations Between Social Groups; Abstract; Introduction; The Perception of "I": The First Notions of Identity; The Construction of the Self in Childhood, Middle Childhood, and Early Adolescence; Perceiving People in Childhood: The Development of an Understanding of Others; Children's Conceptions of the Structure of Society: Family, School, and Social Class; Children's Conceptions of Social Groups: National and Racial Groups; Conclusions; References.
3 Intergroup Relations and Strategies of MinoritiesAbstract; Introduction; Is There Power in the Few? Minorities and Their Challenges; Social Fight or Flight: Coping with Minority Status; Social Creativity; Prototypicality Matters: The Role of Superordinate Categories; Ingroup Projection in Asymmetric Intergroup Relations; Minorities' Ingroup Projection; The Role of Complexity; Negative Superordinate Categories; Minorities' Claiming Higher Prototypicality; Summary and Concluding Remarks; References; Social Construction of Identities and Social Categories.
4 "Back to the Future:" Ideological Dimensions of Intergroup RelationsAbstract; Introduction; Disentangling Racially Prejudiced and Non-racially Prejudiced Aspects of Color Blindness and Color Consciousness; Belief in a just World, Secondary Victimization, and Intergroup Relations; Graded Humanity Relies on Metaphorical Ideologies About Alterations of Humanness; Equalitarianism, Meritocracy, and Intergroup Relations; Egalitarianism, Meritocracy, and Infra-Humanization; Egalitarianism, Meritocracy, and Racial Prejudice; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References.
5 The Common Ingroup Identity Model and the Development of a Functional Perspective: A Cross-National CollaborationAbstract; Introduction; Social Categorization and Intergroup Biases; The Common Ingroup Identity Model; Common Superordinate Identity; Dual Identity; Majority and Minority Group Status: A Functional Perspective; Research Conducted with Children in Portugal Supports this Reasoning; Conclusion; Aknowledgments; References; 6 When Beliefs Become Stronger than Norms: Paradoxical Expressions of Intergroup Prejudice; Abstract; Introduction; Norms and Normative Social Influence.