This book is about the social psychological dynamics and phenomenology of social inclusion and exclusion. The editors take as their starting point the assumption that social life is conducted in a framework of relationships in which individuals seek inclusion and belongingness. Relationships necessarily include others, but equally they have boundaries that exclude. Frequently these boundaries are challenged or crossed. The book will draw together research on individual motivation, small group processes, stigmatization and intergroup relations, to provide a comprehensive social psychological account of social inclusion and exclusion.

Contents:
Part 1: Individual Inclusion and Exclusion. R.F. Baumeister, J.M. Twenge, Clobbered and Numb: The Effects of Social Exclusion. K.D. Williams, C. Govan, Responses to Ostracism: Supplication or Aggravation. B. Major, C.P. Eccleston, Stigma and Social Exclusion. C.L. Pickett, M.B. Brewer, The Role of Exclusion in Maintaining Inclusion. T. McLaughlin-Volpe, A. Aron, S. Wright, Inclusion of the Self by Close Others and by Groups: Implications of the Self-expansion Model. Part 2: Group Dynamics of Exclusion and Inclusion. J. Levine, R. Moreland, Socialization and Resocialization: How Groups Manage Inclusion and Exclusion. J.M. Marques, R. Serodio, I. Pinto, M. Cameira, Sustaining the Group and Sustaining the Self: Reactions to In-group and Out-group Deviants. D. Abrams, G. Randsley de Moura, P. Hutchinson, T. Viki, When Bad Becomes Good (and vice versa): Why Social Exclusion is Not Based on Difference. M.A. Hogg, Asymmetrical Reactions to Positive and Negative Deviants in Salient Groups: A Clash of Social Identity Motives. Part 3: Intergroup Exclusion and Inclusion. S. Reicher, N. Emler, Being Wrong about Doing Wrong: An Analysis of the Relationship between Social Exclusion and Adolescent Delinquency. J.F. Dovidio, S.L. Gaertner, Social Inclusion and Exclusion: Recategorization and the Perception of Intergroup Boundaries. M. Hewstone, E. Cairns, C.M. Judd, F. McLernon, A. Voci, Intergroup Contact in a Divided Society: Changing Group Beliefs in Northern Ireland. Part 4: Exclusion of Minorities and Immigrants. B. Mullen, D. Nichols, Cognitive Representations and Exclusion of Ethnic Immigrant Groups. V.M. Esses, J.F. Dovidio, L.M. Jackson, A. Semenya, Attitudes Towards Immigrants and Immigration: The Role of National and International Identities. S. Moscovici, J.A. Perez, Discrimination vs. Ontologization of the Gypsies.