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Research paper thumbnail of National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism

Frontiers in psychology, 2017

Positive intergroup contact with socially and economically advantaged national majorities has bee... more Positive intergroup contact with socially and economically advantaged national majorities has been shown to reduce ethnic identification among minorities, thereby undermining ethnic minority activism. This finding implies that ethnic identity is the relevant social identity driving ethnic minorities' struggle for equality. We argue that the study of the "sedating" effect of positive intergroup contact for minorities should be more nuanced. The existence of multiple and sometimes interplaying social identities can foster a reinterpretation of the meaning of "ethnic" activism. This study therefore examines how the interplay of ethnic and national identities shapes the sedating effect of contact on minority activism. We expect national identification to buffer the sedated activism resulting from reduced ethnic identification. That is, the mediation from intergroup contact to reduced ethnic activism through weakened ethnic identification is expected to be moderat...

Research paper thumbnail of Immigrant Transnational Political Behavior and Motivations Measure

Research paper thumbnail of The Dynamics of Interminority Extended Contact: The Role of Affective and Cognitive Mediators

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2016

Research on intergroup contact and prejudice reduction has dedicated little attention to relation... more Research on intergroup contact and prejudice reduction has dedicated little attention to relations between minority groups. We examined whether interminority extended contact, that is, the knowledge that a member of the minority ingroup has a friend from the minority outgroup, is associated with positive outgroup attitudes. Affective (outgroup empathy and outgroup trust) and cognitive (ingroup norm) mediators were considered. Two correlational studies were conducted. Study 1 (N = 640, 50% female, mean age = 44 years) was conducted in Bulgaria among the Bulgarian Turkish and Roma ethnic minorities, while Study 2 (N = 458, 67% female, mean age = 44 years) was conducted in Finland among Estonian and Russian immigrants. Path analyses showed that, over and above the effects of direct contact between the minority groups, interminority extended contact was associated with positive outgroup attitudes in both intergroup settings. These effects occurred through empathy (Study 1), trust, and ingroup norms (Study 2). The 2 studies highlight interminority extended contact as a means to promote harmonious interminority relationships and suggest the implementation of interventions based on extended contact to reduce interminority prejudice and to foster solidarity among minorities. (PsycINFO Database Record

Research paper thumbnail of Predictors of Transnational Political Involvement Measure

Research paper thumbnail of Transnational political activities and acculturation attitudes among Senegalese immigrants

Research paper thumbnail of Who is to Blame? The Impact of SDO and Agreement with Cameron’s Speech on Perceived Causes and Ethnocentrism during the English Riots of 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Intergroup Distinctiveness and Discriminatory Immigration Attitudes: The Role of National Identification

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01973533 2012 693360, Jul 1, 2012

We examined the moderating role of national identification in understanding when a focus on inter... more We examined the moderating role of national identification in understanding when a focus on intergroup similarity versus difference on ingroup stereotypical traits—manipulated with scale anchors—leads to support for discriminatory immigration policies. In line with intergroup distinctiveness research, national identification moderated the similarity–difference manipulation effect. Low national identifiers supported discriminatory immigration policies more when intergroup difference rather than similarity was made

Research paper thumbnail of Migration and Multiculturalism

Research paper thumbnail of We will hunt them down: How social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism fuel ethnic persecution of immigrants in fundamentally different ways

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Nov 1, 2008

Despite the fact that SDO and RWA are correlated with one another and both predict support for et... more Despite the fact that SDO and RWA are correlated with one another and both predict support for ethnic persecution of immigrants, it is argued that this aggression is provoked for very different reasons. For authoritarians, outgroup aggression against immigrants should primarily be provoked by immigrant refusal to assimilate into the dominant culture because this violates ingroup conformity. In contrast, SDO should be associated with aggression against immigrants who do assimilate into the dominant culture because this blurs existing status boundaries between groups. Using samples of American and Swiss college students, the data were consistent with this status boundary enforcement hypothesis regarding social dominators and largely consistent with the ingroup conformity hypothesis regarding authoritarians. National and ethnic identification did not account for these results. The results further support the argument that outgroup prejudice and discrimination is most fruitfully seen as an interactive function of individual differences and situational constraints.

Research paper thumbnail of Facing Cultural Diversity

European Psychologist, Mar 2, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Personal Values and Immigration Attitudes: Effects of Individual and Collective Threat

Research paper thumbnail of Individualism in cross-cultural psychology : Separating self-reliance and success orientation

Revue Internationale De Psychologie Sociale, 2005

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Research paper thumbnail of The More the Merrier? The Effects of Type of Cultural Diversity on Exclusionary Immigration Attitudes in Switzerland

International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Oct 11, 2010

Green, Fasel, and Sarrasin: The More the Merrier?

Research paper thumbnail of When sexual threat cues shape attitudes toward immigrants: the role of insecurity and benevolent sexism

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015

Citation: Sarrasin O, Fasel N, Green EGT and Helbling M (2015) When sexual threat cues shape atti... more Citation: Sarrasin O, Fasel N, Green EGT and Helbling M (2015) When sexual threat cues shape attitudes toward immigrants: the role of insecurity and benevolent sexism.

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial introduction to the Special Issue on lay perceptions of emerging infectious diseases

Public Understanding of Science

Research paper thumbnail of Reactions toward Immigrants Measure

Research paper thumbnail of Inclusive National Climates: The Link Between Self-Transcendence Values and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice Across 25 European Countries

Research paper thumbnail of Scientific popularization as socially situated communication: A model of transmission and transformation of information

Research paper thumbnail of Symbolic racism and social dominance orientation as predictors of crime policy attitudes

Research paper thumbnail of Immigration: Social Psychological Aspects

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015

This article introduces a social psychological perspective for understanding phenomena related to... more This article introduces a social psychological perspective for understanding phenomena related to immigration in culturally diverse societies. The viewpoint of both national majorities and immigrants is considered. In the first section, we examine how immigration affects identification processes of national majorities and immigrant minorities, and the consequences of identification for intergroup attitudes. In the second section, the role of threat perceptions, stereotypes, and worldviews in national majorities' stances toward immigrants is presented. Moreover, the psychological consequences of discrimination for immigrants are overviewed. In the final section, both intergroup contact between the national majority and immigrants and multicultural norms are discussed.

Research paper thumbnail of National Identification Counteracts the Sedative Effect of Positive Intergroup Contact on Ethnic Activism

Frontiers in psychology, 2017

Positive intergroup contact with socially and economically advantaged national majorities has bee... more Positive intergroup contact with socially and economically advantaged national majorities has been shown to reduce ethnic identification among minorities, thereby undermining ethnic minority activism. This finding implies that ethnic identity is the relevant social identity driving ethnic minorities' struggle for equality. We argue that the study of the "sedating" effect of positive intergroup contact for minorities should be more nuanced. The existence of multiple and sometimes interplaying social identities can foster a reinterpretation of the meaning of "ethnic" activism. This study therefore examines how the interplay of ethnic and national identities shapes the sedating effect of contact on minority activism. We expect national identification to buffer the sedated activism resulting from reduced ethnic identification. That is, the mediation from intergroup contact to reduced ethnic activism through weakened ethnic identification is expected to be moderat...

Research paper thumbnail of Immigrant Transnational Political Behavior and Motivations Measure

Research paper thumbnail of The Dynamics of Interminority Extended Contact: The Role of Affective and Cognitive Mediators

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2016

Research on intergroup contact and prejudice reduction has dedicated little attention to relation... more Research on intergroup contact and prejudice reduction has dedicated little attention to relations between minority groups. We examined whether interminority extended contact, that is, the knowledge that a member of the minority ingroup has a friend from the minority outgroup, is associated with positive outgroup attitudes. Affective (outgroup empathy and outgroup trust) and cognitive (ingroup norm) mediators were considered. Two correlational studies were conducted. Study 1 (N = 640, 50% female, mean age = 44 years) was conducted in Bulgaria among the Bulgarian Turkish and Roma ethnic minorities, while Study 2 (N = 458, 67% female, mean age = 44 years) was conducted in Finland among Estonian and Russian immigrants. Path analyses showed that, over and above the effects of direct contact between the minority groups, interminority extended contact was associated with positive outgroup attitudes in both intergroup settings. These effects occurred through empathy (Study 1), trust, and ingroup norms (Study 2). The 2 studies highlight interminority extended contact as a means to promote harmonious interminority relationships and suggest the implementation of interventions based on extended contact to reduce interminority prejudice and to foster solidarity among minorities. (PsycINFO Database Record

Research paper thumbnail of Predictors of Transnational Political Involvement Measure

Research paper thumbnail of Transnational political activities and acculturation attitudes among Senegalese immigrants

Research paper thumbnail of Who is to Blame? The Impact of SDO and Agreement with Cameron’s Speech on Perceived Causes and Ethnocentrism during the English Riots of 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Intergroup Distinctiveness and Discriminatory Immigration Attitudes: The Role of National Identification

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01973533 2012 693360, Jul 1, 2012

We examined the moderating role of national identification in understanding when a focus on inter... more We examined the moderating role of national identification in understanding when a focus on intergroup similarity versus difference on ingroup stereotypical traits—manipulated with scale anchors—leads to support for discriminatory immigration policies. In line with intergroup distinctiveness research, national identification moderated the similarity–difference manipulation effect. Low national identifiers supported discriminatory immigration policies more when intergroup difference rather than similarity was made

Research paper thumbnail of Migration and Multiculturalism

Research paper thumbnail of We will hunt them down: How social dominance orientation and right-wing authoritarianism fuel ethnic persecution of immigrants in fundamentally different ways

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Nov 1, 2008

Despite the fact that SDO and RWA are correlated with one another and both predict support for et... more Despite the fact that SDO and RWA are correlated with one another and both predict support for ethnic persecution of immigrants, it is argued that this aggression is provoked for very different reasons. For authoritarians, outgroup aggression against immigrants should primarily be provoked by immigrant refusal to assimilate into the dominant culture because this violates ingroup conformity. In contrast, SDO should be associated with aggression against immigrants who do assimilate into the dominant culture because this blurs existing status boundaries between groups. Using samples of American and Swiss college students, the data were consistent with this status boundary enforcement hypothesis regarding social dominators and largely consistent with the ingroup conformity hypothesis regarding authoritarians. National and ethnic identification did not account for these results. The results further support the argument that outgroup prejudice and discrimination is most fruitfully seen as an interactive function of individual differences and situational constraints.

Research paper thumbnail of Facing Cultural Diversity

European Psychologist, Mar 2, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Personal Values and Immigration Attitudes: Effects of Individual and Collective Threat

Research paper thumbnail of Individualism in cross-cultural psychology : Separating self-reliance and success orientation

Revue Internationale De Psychologie Sociale, 2005

RefDoc Refdoc est un service / is powered by. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The More the Merrier? The Effects of Type of Cultural Diversity on Exclusionary Immigration Attitudes in Switzerland

International Journal of Conflict and Violence, Oct 11, 2010

Green, Fasel, and Sarrasin: The More the Merrier?

Research paper thumbnail of When sexual threat cues shape attitudes toward immigrants: the role of insecurity and benevolent sexism

Frontiers in Psychology, 2015

Citation: Sarrasin O, Fasel N, Green EGT and Helbling M (2015) When sexual threat cues shape atti... more Citation: Sarrasin O, Fasel N, Green EGT and Helbling M (2015) When sexual threat cues shape attitudes toward immigrants: the role of insecurity and benevolent sexism.

Research paper thumbnail of Editorial introduction to the Special Issue on lay perceptions of emerging infectious diseases

Public Understanding of Science

Research paper thumbnail of Reactions toward Immigrants Measure

Research paper thumbnail of Inclusive National Climates: The Link Between Self-Transcendence Values and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice Across 25 European Countries

Research paper thumbnail of Scientific popularization as socially situated communication: A model of transmission and transformation of information

Research paper thumbnail of Symbolic racism and social dominance orientation as predictors of crime policy attitudes

Research paper thumbnail of Immigration: Social Psychological Aspects

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2015

This article introduces a social psychological perspective for understanding phenomena related to... more This article introduces a social psychological perspective for understanding phenomena related to immigration in culturally diverse societies. The viewpoint of both national majorities and immigrants is considered. In the first section, we examine how immigration affects identification processes of national majorities and immigrant minorities, and the consequences of identification for intergroup attitudes. In the second section, the role of threat perceptions, stereotypes, and worldviews in national majorities' stances toward immigrants is presented. Moreover, the psychological consequences of discrimination for immigrants are overviewed. In the final section, both intergroup contact between the national majority and immigrants and multicultural norms are discussed.

Research paper thumbnail of Support for "Normalization" of Relations Between Palestinians and Israelis, and how It Relates to Contact and Resistance in the West Bank

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2019

Since the launching of the Oslo peace process in 1993, the term 'normalization' has been used to ... more Since the launching of the Oslo peace process in 1993, the term 'normalization' has been used to characterize policies that aim to recognize the state of Israel and to establish 'normal' relations between Israelis and Palestinians. Whereas the Palestinian Authority has been supportive of normalization policies, numerous domestic and international critics have argued that these policies serve to perpetuate occupation and its consequences. We examine how Palestinians understand normalization, to what degree they support various forms of 'normalizing' relations with Israelis, and how contact with Israelis relates to support for normalization and motivation for revolutionary resistance against the occupation. Based on a cross-sectional survey conducted among an adult sample (N = 159) in the West Bank in 2016, we show that the understanding of normalization was multi-faceted, and that support for contact and collaboration across group lines (i.e., with Israelis) depended on the type of intergroup relations. On average, respondents were more supportive of relations within the political sphere, e.g. civilian policies and diplomatic coordination, than of interpersonal contact, cultural cooperation or security coordination. Support for most types of intergroup relations was related to decreased motivation for revolutionary resistance. In line with research on 'sedative' effects of positive intergroup contact in historically unequal societies, we found that past positive contact with Israelis was linked to decrease in Palestinians' motivation for revolutionary resistance through increased support for interpersonal contact and security coordination as forms of normalization.