With over 60 years of war and terrorism related to the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, it is understandably difficult for present-day Jewish-Israeli adolescents and Palestinian adolescents in both Israel and the West Bank to imagine a peaceful future. The Artsbridge Institute …
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This dissertation is a study of xenophobia in the Russian Federation. Sociologists have had a longstanding interest in prejudice, xenophobia, and racism. Such attitudes imply that the ethnic majority gives tacit if not explicit approval to social and political practices that kee…
Across two experiments, the paradox of religiosity and prejudice was examined through priming methods in a laboratory setting. The effects of priming religiosity (religious, control) and religious group membership (Christian, Muslim, atheist) on resource distributions (Experimen…
The Muslim community is one of the most diverse communities in the United States. Prejudice could be practiced against Muslims in different social fields. In the public school system, however, where school administration is supposed to be built on equality and fairness, Muslim s…
Until recently, intergroup relations research has undervalued the role of emotion. This dissertation examines how people‘s emotional reactions to challenges to their cherished values—symbolic threats—shape social attitudes. I argue that people respond with distinct emotions depe…
Since 9-11 there has been increased attention toward the Muslim community in the United States. Researchers report that hate crimes and discrimination against Muslims increased in the United States following 9-11. These incidents have been explained through the construct called …
The post 9/11 context created a political and social climate in the United States (U.S.) that promoted prejudice and discrimination against anyone who looked Middle Eastern (e.g., Iranian) or Muslim (Britto, 2008). I was interested in how much and what kinds of prejudice and dis…
The progress of the Roman Catholic Church in Wales under a succession of able bishops between 1916 and 1962 was striking. The Church grew in strength, stature, and confidence. The expansion in the number of its adherents was largely due to continuing immigration from Ireland, En…
The thesis explores the psychological antecedents of Islamophobic prejudice in the UK, through the lens of the Identity-Representations Model (IRM). The IRM attempts to combine the insights of Social Identity Theory, Intergroup Threat Theory, Identity Process Theory, Essentialis…
Following 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, anti-Muslim prejudice and violence dramatically escalated in the United States. We argue that a major contributor to this prejudice and aggression is endorsement of Right-wing Authoritarianism (RWA) because people high in RWA …
Heterosexism and other biased behavior are common in U.S. schools, but little attention has focused on the importance of teachers, staff, school clubs, and policies in combating bias. Three studies are presented that address gaps in the literature. Study 1 examined associations …
Past research has demonstrated the negative effects of media stereotypes on implicit and explicit attitudes across various forms of media. Because video games are a relatively new form of media, there is almost no research on the influence of video game stereotypes on people's a…
Though there is some evidence that many values have implications for intergroup relations (Rokeach, 1973), research has tended to focus on the impact of valuing equality and individualism. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the impact of making the value of n…
A multiple case study was conducted to determine whether bias exists within the Kansas City Missouri Police Department regarding people of Middle Eastern origin or Islamic heritage. This study involved personal interviews with Kansas City Missouri Police Officers of varied exper…
The purpose of the current study was to untangle previous findings within the Terror Management Theory (TMT) literature suggesting that the activation of worldview defense causes an increased preference for the in-group culture and a decreased preference for the out-group cultur…
Anti-Semitism is resurgent throughout much of the world. A new theoretical model of anti-Semitism is presented and tested in three experiments. The New Anti-Semitism Israel (NASI) model proposes that mortality salience increases anti-Semitism and that anti-Semitism often manifes…
The purpose of this research was to (a) study the Muslim students, as a minority group--a group that no longer is foreign to this society or academia, in spite of the prevalent prejudice and discrimination found in the media and elsewhere; (b) investigate their perceptions of pr…
Recent studies of Limited English Proficient (LEP) Latino immigrants in South Carolina have demonstrated that Latinos encounter language barriers when accessing healthcare services and feel that they are treated unfairly based on their ethnicity. The purpose of this research was…
The present research examined the perceptions and reactions that students from differing ethnic backgrounds had toward the issue of racial profiling under stereotype threat. A pilot study showed that Arab-American and African-American students have more negative attitudes, rumin…