Sexual assault is relatively unique compared to other crimes in that victims are often blamed for their assaults more than victims of other crimes are blamed (Bieneck & Krahé, 2011). Though there are likely numerous contributing influences accounting for this disparity, one fact…
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Atheists are underrepresented in political office compared to their numbers in the general population. In the United States, anti-atheist prejudice is prevalent, likely contributing to the disparity in atheist representation. Informed by social identity theory and the sociofunct…
This paper discusses the utility of currency as a promotional technique for southern ways, most specifically a mindset surrounding the social status of African Americans. Prior to the start of the Civil War, southern states began using images depicting enslaved labor on multiple…
This dissertation examines stereotypes and prejudices about Muslims, before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, in the United States. The purpose of this qualitative study, narrative inquiry, is to explore how deconstructing stereotypes and prejudices influence how Mus…
Using television news coverage of American mass shootings, I examine how Muslim perpetrators of violence are covered differently in liberal and conservative media. Furthermore, I examine the consequences of this coverage, including its effects on prejudice towards Muslims and be…
The number of religious discrimination cases has steadily increased over the years (EEOC, 2018a). One under-studied aspect of religious discrimination is religious accommodations. To successfully win a religious accommodation case, employees must prove that they requested an acc…
Regardless of the insurmountable volume of research surrounding the musical adaptations of the works of Victor Hugo and Robert Louis Stevenson, there has never been an academic or scholarly comparison of Les Misérables and Jekyll and Hyde that explores the overwhelming similarit…
Religiosity is an oft-studied construct with few consistent findings. There are many reported physical and psychological health benefits to religiosity (such as being at lower risk for depression), in addition to deleterious effects, such as: being positively linked to increased…
People tend to feel more favorably toward others who share their beliefs and values. Religion can provide a quick estimate of ideological similarity. The religious values conflict model (Brandt & Van Tongeren, 2017) proposes that people high and low in religiosity are both preju…
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…
Drawing upon intergroup contact theory (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew 1998) and the emerging literature on intergroup climate (e.g., Christ et al., 2013, 2014), I utilised various antipathetic intergroup relationships (e.g., Black people vs. White people; non-Muslims vs. Muslims), an…
The aim of the thesis is to provide a social identity account of the politics of mobilisation: based on hatred mostly, in contrast with accounts of solidarity. The bulk of the thesis concentrates on exploring how and why is prejudice in the form of hatred mobilised in inter-grou…
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…
This thesis chronicles my research, preparation, and rehearsal process as an actor to create the role of Lydia Wickham in Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon. In this thesis, it is my intent to record my passage as an actor and Master of Fin…
The present studies examine the effect of psychological essentialism on the relationship between contact and attitudes with regard to religious outgroup members, specifically atheists. Although previous research has been conducted that examines the relationship between outgroup …
A presente dissertação é apresentada em formato de artigo científico. O projeto realizado tem como principal objetivo avaliar os níveis de preconceito sexual numa amostra política portuguesa. Pretende ainda perceber de que forma é que o sexo biológico, a orientação sexual, os ní…
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…
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…