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Intergroup Contact With Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intergroup contact affects how people see the world more broadly. Across four studies (Ntotal = 1,743), we tested whether valenced intergroup contact with refugees as a criminally stigmatized group affects social fear of crime mediated by prejudice.
Patrick F. Kotzur   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

City Slicker or Country Bumpkin?—Distinguishing Urban and Rural Residents From Subtle Facial Cues

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Stereotypes characterize urban and rural residents as differing in traits, values and social outcomes. Here, we examined how people's stereotypes about urban and rural residents differ, testing their validity using a lens model. Results showed that participants detected whether people resided in urban or rural areas from photos across three ...
McLean G. Morgan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Discontinuity as a Barrier to Identity and Behaviour Change: Evidence From Smoking Cessation

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Extensive research has shown that resistance to behaviour change is often driven by the management of self‐related threats, traditionally conceptualized as threats to self‐esteem. The present research offers a novel perspective by examining behaviour change as a threat to self‐continuity (i.e., the perceived stability of one's self‐image over ...
Jérôme Blondé   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ideological (a)Symmetry in Research Evaluations: The Case of Research on Ideological Versus Racial Group Differences

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research investigates how political ideology shapes laypeople's evaluation of scientific studies examining cognitive differences between groups. In three experiments in Germany and the United States, participants evaluated identical research reports that varied only in the intergroup context—racial (Blacks/Whites) or ideological (liberals/
Julia Elad‐Strenger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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