Intergroup emotion research grew markedly in the decades after Allport’s work.

Evidence

Third, emotions have received an increasing amount of attention in the domain of intergroup relations (see also Smith & Mackie, ch. 22 this volume). This research has concerned the impact of people’s mood on their processing of category and individual information (e.g., Bodenhausen, 1993), the beliefs people hold about the nature of emotions experienced by members of different groups (Leyens et al., 2000), or the emotions people experience as a function of their self-categorization into, and identification with, groups (e.g., Mackie, Devos, & Smith, 2000; Yzerbyt, Dumont, Gordijn, & Wigboldus, 2001). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1189

Categorization

• DEFINE: Maps three distinct strands of intergroup emotion research: mood effects on processing, beliefs about outgroup emotions, and group-based emotions from self-categorization.