The Social Developmental Construction of Violence and Intergroup Conflict

Part I: Power, Self and Intergroup Relations.- Chapter 1. Power and the Social Self (Ana Guinote).- Chapter 2. From the Sense of Self to the Understanding of the Relationships between social Groups (Dalila França).- Chapter 3. Intergroup Relations and Strategies of Minorities (Joana Alexandre).- Part II: Social Construction of identities and Social Categories.- Chapter 4. "Back to the Future": Ideological Dimensions of Intergroup Relations (Jacques-Philippe Leyens).- Chapter 5. The Common Intergroup Identity Model and The Development of a Functional Perspective: A Cross-National Collaboration (Sam Gaertner).- Chapter  6. When Beliefs become Stronger than Norms: Paradoxical Expressions of Intergroup Prejudice (Annelyse Pereira).- Part III: Social Developmental processes of Violence.- Chapter 7. Parent-Child Interactions as a Source of Parent Cognition in the Context of Child Maltreatment (Maria Manuela Calheiros).- Chapter 8. The Promotion of Violence by the Mainstream Media Communication (Patrícia Arriaga).- Chapter 9. Social-Developmental research on Intergroup relations in childhood and adolescence (João António).- Chapter 10. A Multi-Norm Structural Social-Developmental Model of Children's Intergroup Attitudes: Integrating Intergroup-Loyalty and Outgroup Fairness Norms (Ricardo Rodrigues).

JORGE VALA, PhD in Social Psychology, University of Louvain (1984), was a full professor at ISCTE, and is currently senior researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS)/University of Lisbon. At ICS, his research focuses on socio-cognitive processes in the field of social representations and ideologies, social norms and social identities. His present projects articulate these processes with the study of racism and prejudice, immigration issues, political attitudes, social justice, and validation of everyday knowledge.Jorge Vala was invited professor at several universities, including the University René Descartes-Paris, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology, President of the Portuguese Association of Psychology, Editor of the Revista Psicologia. He was the Portuguese representative on the European Programme COST, as well as President of the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at ISCTE. Currently, he is the national coordinator for the European Social Survey, and member of the Scientific Committee of the European Values Study. He is also member of the Scientific Board of the Fondation Suisse pour la Recherche en Sciences Sociales (FORS). Between May 2007 and September 2009, he chaired the ICS Academic Board; and is currently ICS Director.



SVEN WALDZUS, studied psychology in Germany, received his PhD in 1999 at Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena and worked in several research projects, but also as consultant and trainer in schools and other public or non-profit organizations. Since 2002 he has been teaching at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology of the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL), since 2011 as Associate Professor. His research covers several areas of intergroup relations, such as social identity, ethnocentrism, intergroup tolerance and