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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Contrasting Theoretical Perspectives on Interpersonal Rewards and Rewarding -- 3 Verbal Facets of Social Reward -- 4 Nonverbal Facets of Social Reward -- 5 Positive Dimensions of Interpersonal Interaction: Warmth and Empathy -- 6 Interpersonal Attraction and Reward -- 7 Locus of Control and Attributional Processes -- 8 Power, Social Influence and Reward -- 9 Rewarding Relationships -- 10 Overview and Concluding Comments -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index

The present study sought to test two hypotheses. The first was that intergroup discrimination leads to increased self-esteem. The second was that threatened self-esteem (i.e., operationalized here as the extent to which people believe that the ingroup is negatively evaluated by an outgroup)
would lead to increased intergroup discrimination. Support was found for both hypotheses.

Presents results of 1986 and 1997 surveys of Catholics and Protestants on their preferences for towns as residences and perceptions of the towns' levels of violence, rates of unemployment, and religious composition.

This article examined communicative aspects of social identity theory in the context of the deeply divided community of Northern Ireland. Self-disclosure was selected for analysis, given its central role in the development of cross-group friendships and related reduction of negative bias towards the outgroup. In view of previous research on factors that mediate the decision to self-disclose to the outgroup, and using the Disclosure Decision Model as a guiding framework, the authors hypothesized that outgroup contact would be a key determinant of disclosure but that contact would be mediated by degree of trust and attraction for the outgroup, as well as by strength of ingroup identification. The findings supported these predictions. The results are discussed both in relation to the importance of communication facets of social identity theory and in light of wider policy implications for cross-group communication in Northern Ireland.