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…
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of social dominance orientation (SDO) and right wing authoritarianism (RWA) on discrimination in the face of a threat to either resources or in-group identity. SDO can be viewed as the attitudinal manifestation of realistic co…
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 …
An Eco-phenomenological view is offered as an alternative to existing psychological approaches to studying ethnic prejudice(s) as attitudes. Following classical social psychological theory (Asch, 1952; Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum, 1957), attitudes are conceptualized as subjective…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Scholars of conflict resolution have studied ways to reduce prejudice in society for years, believing that prejudice leads to or increases the likelihood of conflict. The primary focus has been on schools, universities and communities. More limited research has been conducted on…
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…
The 2002 Gujarati Riots were one of the worst outbreaks of violence between Hindus and Muslims in India in recent history. While there have been some publications on the incident, there has been a startling lack of studies that have looked at the victims' experiences of the riot…
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…
Three studies investigated the effects of self-categorization on outgroup directed emotion. Study 1 demonstrated that self-categorization as an American or as a student changed emotion about police and Muslims. Studies 2 and 3 replicated Study 1 and investigated two mechanisms, …
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…
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…