Table of Contents

1. Stigma: Introduction and Overview, Dovidio, Major, and Crocker
I. The Perceiver
2. Why People Stigmatize: Toward a Biocultural Framework, Neuberg, D. M. Smith, and Asher
3. Threat and the Social Construction of Stigma, Stangor and Crandall
4. Stigma and Stereotypes, Biernat and Dovidio
5. Ideology and Lay Theories of Stigma: The Justification of Stigmatization, Crandall
II. The Stigmatized
6. Social Stigma and the Self: Meanings, Situations, and Self-Esteem, Crocker and Quinn
7. The Looking-Glass Self Revisited: Behavior Choice and Self-Perception in the Social Token, Cioffi
8. The Hidden Costs of Hidden Stigma, Smart and Wegner
9. Coping with Stigma and Prejudice, Miller and Major
III. The Social Interface
10. Awkward Moments in Interactions between Nonstigmatized and Stigmatized Individuals, Hebl, Tickle, and Heatherton
11. Stigma, Threat, and Social Interactions, Blascovich, Mendes, Hunter, and Lickel
12. "Too Young, Too Old": Stigmatizing Adolescents and Elders, Zebrowitz and Montepare
13. Stigma and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies, Jussim, Palumbo, Chatman, Madon, and A. Smith
14. The Social Consequences of Physical Disability, Hebl and Kleck