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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…

In the following pages I try to present my interpretation of the enigma behind the successful co-existence between the two largest ethnic groups in Bulgaria---the Bulgarian majority and the Turkish minority---by offering a new theoretical rationalization of this atypical phenome…

This dissertation explores the structure and significance of beliefs about the nature of gender/sex categories, or gender/sex diversity beliefs, across a series of empirical studies. In Chapter 1, I describe the recent history of the study of gender/sex categories and gender/sex…

We structure our lives around social groups – belonging to them and thinking about them. In this dissertation, I develop a new stereotype content measure to assess the attributes associated with groups in America today, propose and support a theory of sociocultural essentialism,…

This dissertation draws on methods and theories from psychological and linguistic anthropology to examine the social, religious, and linguistic relationships between the high-status Muslim Swahili and the disenfranchized Giriama who live in the town of Malindi on the Kenya coast…