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2 - Seven Decades in Social Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Thomas Fraser Pettigrew
Edited by
Saul Kassin
Saul Kassin
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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Summary

You could say I fell into social psychology. Growing up in Richmond, Virginia in the 1930s and 1940s, I did not know what psychology was. In my Scottish-American immigrant family, engineering was the assumed career choice for me. My father had three engineering degrees, invented new heating devices, was elected president of his national engineering association, and obviously loved his work.

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Pillars of Social Psychology
Stories and Retrospectives
 , pp. 6 - 14
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Allport, G. W. (1954). The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.Google Scholar
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Mosteller, F., & Moynihan, D. P. (Eds.) (1972). On Equality of Educational Opportunity. New York: Random House.Google Scholar
Pettigrew, T. F. (2021a). Advancing intergroup contact theory: Comments on the issue’s papers. Journal of Social Issues, 77, 258–293.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pettigrew, T. F. (2021b). Contextual Social Psychology: Reanalyzing Prejudice, Voting, and Intergroup Contact. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pettigrew, T. F., & Tropp, L. (2006). A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90, 1–33.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Smith, H. J., Pettigrew, T. F., Pippin, G., & Bialosiewicz, S. (2012). Relative deprivation: A theoretical and meta-analytic critique. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 16(3), 203–232.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, H. J., Ryan, D., Jaurique, A., Pettigrew, T. F., Jetten, J., et al. (2018). Cultural values moderate the impact of relative deprivation. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(8), 1183–1218.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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