scholarly journals Dual citizenship and the perceived loyalty of immigrants

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 996-1013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti ◽  
Tuuli Anna Renvik ◽  
Jolanda Van der Noll ◽  
Viivi Eskelinen ◽  
Anette Rohmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Willingness To Accept ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Citizenship Status ◽  
Dual Citizenship ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
National Loyalty

This survey experiment examined national majority group members’ reactions to immigrants’ citizenship status with a focus on dual citizenship. A sample of 779 participants ( nFinland = 174; nNetherlands = 377; nGermany = 228) was used to examine whether immigrants’ citizenship status affects trust towards immigrants, willingness to accept immigrants in strategic positions, and support for immigrants’ social influence in society. Perceived group loyalties were expected to mediate these relationships. Compared to national citizens, dual citizens were perceived as having lower national loyalty and higher foreign loyalty. Compared to foreign citizens, dual citizens were perceived to have higher national loyalty but equally high foreign loyalty. Higher national loyalty was further associated with higher trust, acceptance, and support, whereas higher foreign loyalty was associated with lower trust, acceptance, and support. These findings are discussed in relation to societal debates on dual citizenship and the limited social psychological research on this topic.

Interculturalism and the Acceptance of Minority Groups

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maykel Verkuyten ◽  
Kumar Yogeeswaran
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Situational Effect

Abstract. Multiculturalism has been criticized and rejected by an increasing number of politicians, and social psychological research has shown that it can lead to outgroup stereotyping, essentialist thinking, and negative attitudes. Interculturalism has been proposed as an alternative diversity ideology, but there is almost no systematic empirical evidence about the impact of interculturalism on the acceptance of migrants and minority groups. Using data from a survey experiment conducted in the Netherlands, we examined the situational effect of promoting interculturalism on acceptance. The results show that for liberals, but not for conservatives, interculturalism leads to more positive attitudes toward immigrant-origin groups and increased willingness to engage in contact, relative to multiculturalism.

scholarly journals Ego, Alter and Object: Explaining Personal Involvement with a Social Object Based on Presumed Collective Involvement and Group Identification.

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joao Wachelke ◽  
Jean Natividade ◽  
Alexsandro De Andrade ◽  
Rafael Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Group Identification ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Social Object ◽  
Personal Involvement ◽  
Object Based ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
University Course

<p class="APAtexto"><span lang="EN-US">The present paper aims at testing a model to predict personal involvement with a social object which was inspired by the social psychological triangle proposed by Moscovici. The triangle bridges three essential aspects of social psychology: the individual, the Other and a social object. It was operationalized as an empirical model to explain personal involvement with a social topic from two predictors: perceived collective involvement of group members with the same topic and group identification. The sample was formed by 805 Brazilian undergraduates. The participants completed scales that measured their identification with university students, their perception of students’ involvement with two social objects, university course or job, and their own personal involvement with those topics. Regression analyses supported the hypothesis that group identification, perceived collective involvement and their interaction maintained positive relations with personal involvement. Discussion focuses on the relativity of results to specific objects, the complexity of determinant factors of personal involvement and the pertinence of the triangular look to characterize social psychological research.<em></em></span></p>

Diversity Science and Institutional Design

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria C. Plaut
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Interracial Interaction ◽  
Diversity Programs ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Social Psychological Research

Ideas about diversity and how to deal with difference—for example, to avoid race or attend to it—reside at the center of debates on how to build fair, inclusive, diverse environments. Social-psychological research in diversity science can inform policy makers about the implications of different approaches. Several key patterns emerge: (a) colorblindness sometimes produces more, not less, stereotyping and prejudice, and the opposite generally occurs for multiculturalism, though evidence is mixed; (b) avoiding race generally leads to worse outcomes in interracial interaction; (c) signals of organizational colorblindness generally predict negative outcomes, whereas organizational multiculturalism predicts positive outcomes, except that multicultural approaches can inadvertently send the message of valuing persons of color only for their group identity; (d) practices and policies that encourage colorblindness can leave discrimination undetected, relative to race-conscious approaches, but diversity programs can invoke a fairness illusion; and (e) majority group members may feel excluded or threatened by multicultural approaches to diversity. Overall, although attending to difference may be complicated, ignoring or avoiding it may not be as conducive to building fair, inclusive environments. The article discusses implications for the design of institutions in education, business, and public agencies, such as those that administer public services in housing, juvenile justice, and child protection.

scholarly journals Explaining Police Bias

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 (10) ◽  
pp. 1262-1283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Smith ◽  
Geoffrey P. Alpert
Keyword(s):  
Minority Group ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Negative Behaviors ◽  
Illusory Correlation ◽  
Social Conditioning ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Social Psychological Research

Although recent empirical research has shown that Blacks and Hispanics are consistently overrepresented among police stops, searches, and arrests, few criminologists have attempted to provide a theoretical explanation for the disparities reported in the research literature. This article proposes a theory of individual police behavior that is grounded in social— psychological research on stereotype formation and that assumes a nonmotivational but biased response to minority citizens by the police. Accordingly, stereotype formation and its consequences are largely unintentional and are driven by social conditioning and the illusory correlation phenomenon, which results in the overestimation of negative behaviors associated with minority group members. After specifying the theory, the article presents a research agenda for empirically testing and verifying its propositions.

scholarly journals The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 136843022090770
Author(s):  
Anna Kende ◽  
Márton Hadarics ◽  
Sára Bigazzi ◽  
Mihaela Boza ◽  
Jonas R. Kunst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Roma People ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Context Specific

National and European policies aim to facilitate the integration of Roma people into mainstream society. Yet, Europe’s largest ethnic group continues to be severely discriminated. Although prejudice has been identified to be at the core of this failure, social psychological research on anti-Gypsyism remains scarce. We conducted a study in six countries using student and community samples ( N = 2,089; Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Norway, Italy, Spain) to understand how anti-Gypsyism among majority-group members predicts unfavorable acculturation preferences toward Roma people. Openly negative stereotypes predicted acculturation preferences strongly across the countries. However, stereotypes about the Roma receiving undeserved benefits were also relevant to some degree in East-Central Europe, implying that intergroup relations are framed there as realistic conflict. Stereotypes about traditional Roma culture did not play a central role in acculturation preferences. Our findings highlighted that anti-Gypsyism may be an impediment to integration efforts, and efforts should be context-specific rather than pan-national.

zy prawda nas wyzwoli? Przełamywanie oporu psychologicznego w przyjmowaniu wiedzy o Zagładzie

2014 ◽  
pp. 803-822
Author(s):  
Marta Witkowska ◽  
Piotr Forecki
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Research ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Holocaust Education ◽  
Positive Group ◽  
Nazi Occupation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Social Psychological Research

The introduction of the programs on Holocaust education in Poland and a broader debate on the transgressions of Poles against the Jews have not led to desired improvement in public knowledge on these historical events. A comparison of survey results from the last two decades (Bilewicz, Winiewski, Radzik, 2012) illustrates mounting ignorance: the number of Poles who acknowledge that the highest number of victims of the Nazi occupation period was Jewish systematically decreases, while the number of those who think that the highest number of victims of the wartime period was ethnically Polish, increases. Insights from the social psychological research allow to explain the psychological foundations of this resistance to acknowledge the facts about the Holocaust, and indicate the need for positive group identity as a crucial factor preventing people from recognizing such a threatening historical information. In this paper we will provide knowledge about the ways to overcome this resistance-through-denial. Implementation of such measures could allow people to accept responsibility for the misdeeds committed by their ancestors.

From Help Giving to Helping Relations

2018 ◽  
pp. 464-488
Author(s):  
Arie Nadler
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Psychological Needs ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Help Giving ◽  
Social Psychological Research ◽  
Practical Implications

This chapter reviews social psychological research on help giving and helping relations from the 1950s until today. The first section considers the conditions under which people are likely to help others, personality dispositions that characterize helpful individuals, and motivational and attributional antecedents of helpfulness. The second section looks at long-term consequences of help and examines help in the context of enduring and emotionally significant relationships. Research has shown that in the long run help can increase psychological and physical well-being for helpers but discourage self-reliance for recipients. The third section analyzes helping from intra- and intergroup perspectives, considering how its provision can contribute to helpers’ reputations within a group or promote the positive social identity of in-groups relative to out-groups. Help is thus conceptualized as a negotiation between the fundamental psychological needs for belongingness and independence. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

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