TY - BOOK ID - 80829537 TI - Stigmatization, tolerance and repair AU - Dijker, Antonius Johannes Maria AU - Koomen, Wim PY - 2007 SN - 9780511489815 9780521790192 9780521793681 9780511355844 051135584X 0511489811 9780511354243 051135424X 0521790190 0521793688 0511354827 9780511354823 1107174163 1281153621 9786611153625 1139130196 0511355327 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Toleration KW - Stigma (Social psychology) KW - Deviant behavior KW - Social control. KW - Social conflict KW - Sociology KW - Liberty KW - Pressure groups KW - Deviancy KW - Social deviance KW - Human behavior KW - Conformity KW - Social adjustment KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Shame KW - Social psychology KW - Bigotry KW - Intolerance KW - Tolerance KW - Virtues KW - Discrimination KW - Psychological aspects. KW - Social aspects. KW - Health Sciences KW - Psychiatry & Psychology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80829537 AB - Society is faced with a variety of undesirable behaviours and conditions such as crime, mental and physical illnesses and disabilities, that usually provoke different responses in people such as emotions of anger, fear or pity. In our evolutionary past, these emotions adaptively motivated the repair of interpersonal relationships, whereas more recently they may also result in other types of social control such as stigmatization or tolerance. Dijker and Koomen show, on the basis of elementary psychological processes, how peoples' responses are not only dependent on type of deviance but also on personality, situation, historical period and culture. They also examine the implications of these responses for the well-being and coping of people with deviant conditions or stigmas. This book provides conceptual tools for developing interventions to reduce stigmatization and offers a deeper understanding of the psychological basis of social control as well as opportunities to influence its potentially harmful consequences. ER -