Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants
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Gheorghiu, M., Pehrson, S., & Christ, O. (2022)
Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61(2), 510-531. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12493
Immigration has been a prominent political issue for decades, but particularly so with rising national populism. To understand current anti-immigration opinion, we turn to the...
Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa.
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Tropp, L. R., Hawi, D. R., O'Brien, T. C., Gheorghiu, M., Zetes, A., & Butz, D. A. (2017)
Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 23(3), 239-249. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000236
With surveys of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, and Whites and Blacks in South Africa, this research examines how both contact quality and exposure to intergrou...
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups
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Owe, E., Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Lee, S. W. . S., …Jalal, B. (2012)
Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(1), 24-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022111430255
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of researc...
Beyond the United States and Japan: testing Yamagishi's emancipation theory of trust across 31 nations.
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Gheorghiu, M. A., Vignoles, V. L., & Smith, P. B. (2009)
Beyond the United States and Japan: testing Yamagishi's emancipation theory of trust across 31 nations. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72(4), 365-383. https://doi.org/10.1177/019027250907200408
We examined the relationship between Individualism/Collectivism and generalized social trust across 31 European nations participating in the European Social Survey. Using mult...