M Verkuyten
Biographic Data
| ID | 27220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Verkuyten |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Verkuyten |
| SIGNATURE | VERKUYTEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0137-1527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 250 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2923 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 250 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 28 |
Reflecting on Prejudice Research
Prejudice is a major worldwide problem fuelling discrimination and conflict in everyday life. In mainstream psychological and social science research, many prejudice researchers test theoretical propositions using standard (survey) questions. This article argues that this important type of work will benefit from reflecting on some of the feedback that people give when participating in research that uses self‐report for measuring prejudice. Four i…
“Ours”
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in collective psychology ownership in different disciplines. However, and in contrast to a feeling of personal ownership ("mine"), the theoretical thinking about a sense of collective ownership ("ours") is limited. This article proposes that the social identity perspective (social identity theory and self-categorization theory) provides a coherent framework for understanding and examining collect…
Changes in support for free speech and hate speech restrictions
How do attitudes toward free speech and hate speech restrictions change across the adult lifespan? The current research utilizes data from five annual waves of longitudinal data from 2019 to 2024 ( N > 50,000) to examine the extent to which cohort, period, and age effects contribute to changes in attitudes toward free speech and hate speech among ethnic majority and minority group members during a period of changing societal norms about freedom o…
The Two Routes of Collective Psychological Ownership
People can have a sense of collective ownership of a particular territory, such as “our” country, “our” neighborhood, and “our” park. Collective psychological ownership is argued to go together with rights and responsibilities that have different behavioral implications. We found that collective psychological ownership leads to perceived determination right, and indirectly to the exclusion of outsiders from “our” place. Simultaneously, collective…
Collective psychological ownership as a new angle for understanding group dynamics
Even without legal ownership, groups can experience objects, places, and ideas as belonging to them ('ours'). This state of mind-collective psychological ownership-is understudied in social psychology, yet it is central to many intergroup conflicts and stewardship behaviour. We discuss our research on the psychological processes and social-psychological implications of collective psychological ownership. We studied territorial ownership, in diffe…
The effects of refugees’ emotional tears on felt emotions and helping behaviors
Tearful faces are frequent in mass media portraits of refugees, but the consequences of such depictions for different kinds of intergroup helping remain poorly understood. While existing research suggests that individuals tend to be more willing to support those who display tears, the impact of emotional tears on tangible helping behavior, such as monetary donations, has not been examined. Understanding these dynamics could have significant impli…
Critical Inclusiveness
Being tolerated as a minority group member
Research on the experience of being tolerated has focused on single events, ignoring the important question of whether the experience of being tolerated depends on previous experiences. We examined whether the experience of being tolerated has a negative impact on minority team members depending on whether they had previously been rejected or fully accepted. In a pre-registered study with 440 participants, we used a recently developed experimenta…
Ethnic identity centrality across the adult lifespan
8,325) group members in New Zealand to examine changes in ethnic identity centrality using cohort-sequential latent growth modeling. This approach helps to identify changes in mean levels of ethnic identity centrality over time and whether such changes are driven by aging, cohort, and/or period effects. Our data reveal that, among both ethnic majority and ethnic minority individuals, changes in ethnic identity centrality were informed by a combin…
Intolerance of Transgressive Protest Actions
The current research examines intolerance of protest actions by focusing on two major questions: (a) How intolerant are people of transgressive protest actions of their least-liked versus most-liked groups? and (b) how do individual differences in deontological and utilitarian moral predisposition relate to intolerance of transgressive protest actions by these two groups? In two survey-embedded experiments using nationally representative samples …
The social psychology of intergroup tolerance and intolerance
Living with cultural, religious, and ideological diversity inevitably creates situations where people are confronted with beliefs, values, or practices that they disapprove of. In such situations, people may consider reasons to nevertheless tolerate what they disapprove of (i.e., forbearance tolerance), or reject these (i.e., intolerance). In the current review, we consider empirical research on the processes of intergroup tolerance and consider …
Testing the asymmetry hypothesis of tolerance
Under the asymmetry hypothesis, political tolerance and intolerance differ in their underlying psychology, making it easier to persuade the tolerant to become less tolerant than to convince the intolerant to become more tolerant. Using a representative sample of the Dutch population (N = 546), we examined this hypothesis for people’s tolerance or intolerance of socially disruptive protest actions of their least-liked group. Focusing on the releva…
Political tolerance and the golden rule
The golden rule is a widespread moral guide for preventing conflict across cultures and religions, and reciprocity is foundational to political tolerance. This raises the question of whether the golden rule has an impact on one's willingness to tolerate political protest actions of disliked ideological groups. In the current research, we examined whether making salient golden rule reciprocity impacts on political tolerance of one's least‐liked gr…
The nature of deprovincialism
This study ( N = 770) explores in depth the construct of deprovincialization by both uniting and comparing two scales that assess its two facets: the Group Deprovincialization Scale (GDS; Martinovic & Verkuyten, 2013) and the Cultural Deprovincialization Scale (CDS, Boin et al., 2020). First, we tested the factorial structure of the construct through confirmatory factor analyses. Second, we compared the mean scores of the GDS and the CDS and a li…
Intolerant of being tolerant? Examining the impact of intergroup toleration on relative left frontal activity and outgroup attitudes
The Language of Inequality
There is evidence that in more economically unequal societies, social relations are more strained. We argue that this may reflect the tendency for wealth to become a more fitting lens for seeing the world, so that in economically more unequal circumstances, people more readily divide the world into “the haves” and “have nots.” Our argument is supported by archival and experimental evidence. Two archival analyses reveal that at times of greater in…
Internal and external motivation to respond without prejudice
With a person-centered approach, the constellations of internal motivation and external motivation to respond without prejudice within individuals are examined, and how these relate to directly and indirectly reported levels of prejudice. Using latent profile analysis, we identified four subgroups of motivated individuals among large national samples of majority members in Germany (N = 1745) and in the Netherlands (N = 1645). With one exception, …
Collective Psychological Ownership and Territorial Compensation in Australia and South Africa
Collective psychological ownership as a sense that a territory belongs to a group might explain attitudes of the White majority toward territorial compensation for Indigenous Peoples in settler societies. Ownership can be inferred from different general principles and we considered three key principles: autochthony (entitlements from first arrival), investment (entitlements from working the land), and formation (primacy of the territory in formin…
Coping with being tolerated
Tolerance is mainly presented as an improvement on discrimination, but research shows that it also can have a negative psychological impact on some minorities. Yet, there is no research into the meanings that minority individuals and trans people in particular append to tolerance. Whether being tolerated is experienced as helpful or hurtful would be an important consideration for public policies promoting tolerance. We interviewed 13 trans and no…
The Impact of Emotional versus Instrumental Reasons for Dual Citizenship on the Perceived Loyalty and Political Tolerance of Immigrant-Origin Minorities
An increasing number of states permit dual citizenship, but there are public concerns about divided loyalties of dual citizens which might lead to intolerance of their political rights. We propose and test whether these concerns depend on the emotional versus instrumental reasons immigrants express for acquiring their second, host society citizenship. Using a survey experiment on a nationally representative sample of native-born Dutch, we find th…
Deprovincialization
Deprovincialization is a set of attitudes characterized by two sides: a nuanced and fresh perspective on the in‐group culture and an open and accepting attitude toward other groups. After reviewing early research and indirect tests of the construct, we focused our attention on research investigating these two sides of deprovincialization. Studies conducted in various countries demonstrate that deprovincialization as in‐group cultural nuance is a …
The rejection and acceptance of Muslim minority practices
In Western societies, generalized prejudice and anti-Muslim sentiments can be major drivers of the rejection of Muslim religious practices. However, people can also reject such practices for other reasons, such as concerns about civil liberties or the secular nature of the state. With national samples of German and Dutch majority members ( N = 3,703), we used a multiple-acts-multiple-actors design to simultaneously examine attitudes toward four r…
When they want to take away what is “ours”
People can display negative reactions towards those who challenge their sense of psychological ownership. We tested whether natives would show negativity towards refugees upon perceiving collective ownership threat (COT)—the fear of losing control over a territory that is perceived to be “ours”—in the context of mass immigration (Syrian refugees in Turkey; total N = 1,598). Correlational Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated COT to be associated with into…
Tolerance of Muslim minority identity enactment
There have been strong debates in many European countries about religious identity enactment of Muslims, with the wearing of the headscarf in public places being a central symbolic topic. This study investigated the importance of the context (private versus three public contexts) for tolerance of Muslim identity enactment (e.g., the wearing of headscarves) among a national sample of Dutch majority group members. Using an experimental design, it w…
Tolerance of the Muslim headscarf
In many West European countries, debates about Muslim women wearing a headscarf in public positions evolve around the question whether the reason for wearing it is personal choice, religious freedom or community pressures. This study uses national samples of Dutch and German majority group members (N = 3734) and an experimental design to investigate whether their tolerance of the headscarf worn by a civil servant depends on four perceived reasons…
Racist victimization among children in The Netherlands
Using data from a nation-wide study, this article examines the extent of racist victimization among Dutch, Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese children (10-13 years) in The Netherlands. The responses indicate that ethnic minority children are more often victim of racist name-calling and social exclusion than are Dutch children. Furthermore, Turkish children are more likely to face racism than Surinamese and Moroccan children. Using multilevel analys…
Ethnic Group Identification and Group Evaluation Among Minority and Majority Groups
Following social identity theory, the author hypothesized that members of minority groups are more likely than majority group members to endorse multiculturalism more strongly and assimilationist thinking less strongly. In addition, the multiculturalism hypothesis proposes that the more minority groups endorse the ideology of multiculturalism (or assimilationism), the more (or less) likely they will be to identify with their ethnic in-group and t…
The Integration Paradox
The integration paradox refers to the phenomenon of the more highly educated and structurally integrated immigrants turning away from the host society, rather than becoming more oriented toward it. This article provides an overview of the empirical evidence documenting this paradox in the Netherlands. In addition, the theoretical arguments and the available findings about the social psychological processes involved in this paradox are considered.…
Life Satisfaction Among Ethnic Minorities
For most immigrants and ethnic minority groups, everyday life in the country of settlement raises question of adaptation and belonging. Aside from factors such as lower income, lower education and poorer health, being an ethnic minority member carries additional factors that can lower general life satisfaction. Using data from two studies the present paper shows that ethnic minority group members (Turkish-Dutch) have lower general life satisfacti…
Immigrants’ National Identification
This article provides a social psychological analysis of immigrants’ identification with the country of settlement, that is, their host national identification. We first discuss national (dis)identification in relation to dual identity and religion. Subsequently and drawing on acculturation research and the social identity perspective, we discuss four conditions that can stimulate or hinder the development of national identification: sociostructu…
Multicultural recognition and ethnic minority rights
Questions of multiculturalism give rise to lively and important debates in many countries and in many spheres of life. Diversity is considered desirable and necessary for the development of secure ethnic identities and positive self-feelings, but is also challenged for being inequitable and a threat to social cohesion. It is argued that the social identity perspective offers a useful framework for examining some of the key social psychological co…
More than Two Decades of Changing Ethnic Attitudes in the Netherlands
This article uses data from three studies to examine changing reactions toward ethnic minority groups in the Netherlands (1979–2002). Using realistic conflict theory, Study 1 focuses on support for discrimination of immigrant groups in general. The findings indicate that this support is more widespread in times of high levels of immigration, when the unemployment level has recently risen strongly, and among cohorts that grew to maturity in times …
Religious Group Identification and Inter-Religious Relations
Following social identity theory, this research examines the relationship between group identification and intergroup relations by focusing on religion. Religious as well as Dutch national group identification was examined among Turkish-Dutch Muslims. Identification was studied in relation to general affective ratings of multiple religious groups (Muslims, Christians, Hindustanis, Jews and non-believers) and the endorsement of Islamic group right…
Public attitudes towards support for migrants
Immigration leads to strong and polarized public and political debates in Europe and the Western world more generally. In some of these debates, migrants are described as either having little choice but to migrate (involuntary) or as migrating out of their own free choice (voluntary). In two studies and using a social psychological perspective, native Dutch respondents were asked about their support for policies aimed at cultural rights and publi…
The integration paradox
The so-called integration paradox refers to the phenomenon of the economically more integrated and highly educated immigrants turning away from the host society, instead of becoming more oriented toward it. The present study examined this paradox in the Netherlands among a large sample (N = 3,981) of immigrants, including 2 generations and 4 ethnic groups. The assumed negative relationship between level of education and attitudes toward the host …
School Satisfaction of Elementary School Children
We were here first, so we determine the rules of the game
This paper identifies autochthony-the belief that a place belongs to its original inhabitants and that they are therefore more entitled-as a relevant new determinant of out-group prejudice. We hypothesized that autochthony uniquely predicts prejudice towards migrant groups and that it mediates the relationship between national identification and prejudice. The mediation process was anticipated to be especially strong for people who perceive out-g…
Host National Identification of Immigrants in the Netherlands
This study examines immigrants’ identification with the host country. We use survey data of more than 1,700 Turkish and Moroccan immigrants and more than 2,200 natives in the Netherlands. We answer four main questions in this study. First, do immigrants have lower national identification than natives? Second, does the level of national identification differ between immigrant groups? Third, do economic and social integration similarly affect natio…
Social Distances in a Multi Ethnic Society
In the present study conducted among Dutch children age 10-12, we focus on preferences for contact with members of different ethnic minority groups, and on contextual variables as well as individual characteristics. Scalogram analysis indicated consensus on an ethnic hierarchy or cumulative pattern of ethnic group preferences. This pattern was shared by children low and high on prejudice, and by both boys and girls. Also, multilevel analysis show…
Interminority Attitudes
This study examined interminority attitudes among a large sample (N = 1,987) of two minority groups (of Turkish and Moroccan origin) in the Netherlands. The focus is on their attitudes toward each other, toward a third ethnic minority group, and toward the native majority group. The aim is to simultaneously test theoretical predictions related to group categorization and group identification, intergroup contacts, and endorsement of multiculturali…
Interethnic Relations in a Changing Political Context
The aim of this study was to examine evaluations of multiple groups by both ethnic majority-group (Dutch) and minority-group (Turkish-Dutch) members during a turbulent political period in the Netherlands, marked by the rapid rise and subsequent decline of a new-rightist, populist movement. The analysis of cross-sectional data from three periods (2001 to 2003) showed clear changes in these evaluations. As expected, both the Dutch and the Turkish p…
Multiculturalism among minority and majority adolescents in the Netherlands
School ethnic diversity and students' interethnic relations
Background and aimsSchool ethnic desegregation has been a topic of strong societal and educational concern. Research has examined the effects of ethnic school composition on students' interethnic relations with diverging outcomes and sometimes inconsistent results. In this review paper, we provide an assessment of this literature to explain why and when school desegregation might improve or worsen ethnic relations and to identify important future…
Understanding multicultural attitudes
Support for Multiculturalism and Minority Rights
Support for multiculturalism and minority rights is examined in three studies among ethnic Dutch participants. Three models are tested for how national identification is related to perceived realistic and symbolic threats and to levels of support. Findings in all three studies are most in agreement with a ‘group identity lens’ model in which the relationship between national identification and support for multiculturalism is mediated by perceived…
Dual identity among immigrants
These findings help to clarify discrepant approaches to dual identity in the existing literature and provide guidelines for future research into dual identity among immigrants in Western societies. In particular, they suggest that a distinction between dual self-identification and measures of group identification is needed
Parental acceptance of children's intimate ethnic outgroup relations
Being, Feeling and Doing
In psychology there is a growing research interest in issues of ethnic minority identity and acculturation. In this research the emphasis is on relatively stable or enduring internal dispositions and attitudes. Studies on the way ethnic minorities define and account for their identity are scarce. However, ethnic minority members often have to explain and justify their identity, not only in interactions with dominant group members but also in rela…
Ethnic Identity and Its Relation to Personal Self-Esteem
Ethnic identity and its relation to personal self-esteem were examined by comparing 31 Chinese adolescents who immigrated to Canada and 31 Chinese adolescents who were Canadian born. The foreign-born adolescents were more likely to identify themselves as Chinese (rather than Chinese Canadian) and to include references to their ethnicity in response to an open-ended Who Am I Questionnaire, a variation of the Twenty Statements Test (M. H. Kuhn & T.…
Host national and religious identification among Turkish Muslims in Western Europe
Using a sample of 602 Turkish Muslims from Germany and the Netherlands, we examined the influence of ingroup norms and perceived discrimination on religious group identification and host national identification. Participants experiencing pressures from their ingroup to maintain an ethnoreligious lifestyle as well as those who perceived discrimination by natives identified more strongly with their religious group and, in turn, identified less with…
Impact of Ethnic and Sex Differences on Global Self-Esteem among Adolescents in the Netherlands
Happiness among Adolescents in the Netherlands
A nationwide sample of 2710 Dutch adolescents and 518 ethnic minority adolescents living in the Netherlands was used to examine ethnic and sex differences in happiness. Analyses of variance were conducted with ethnic background, sex, and length of residence in the Netherlands, as variables. Socioeconomic status was included in the analyses as a covariate. Adolescents from ethnic minority backgrounds, as compared to the Dutch, had significantly lo…
Self-Definition and Ingroup Formation Among Ethnic Minorities in the Netherlands
The social identification approach to intergroup relations emphasizes the role of social categorization as a cognitive variable in causing group behavior. The acceptance of a social category as self-defining is assumed to lead to ingroup formation and preferences. The present study does not focus on the causality question but rather argues that the social identification model does not pay enough attention to the different levels of group identifi…
Positive action policy for ethnic minorities in the Netherlands
In contrast to the UK and the US, positive action for ethnic minorities is a relatively new issue in the Netherlands. Currently, there is much lively debate about the social policy concerning positive action programmes and the legal forms these programmes should take. In order to take an active role in shaping the public policy debate, two studies were conducted; the first study is concerned with the opinion of the Dutch population and the second…
Prejudice, Ethnic Identity, Contact and Ethnic Group Preferences Among Dutch Young Adolescents
Social identity theory, the contact hypothesis, and prejudice research are three important perspectives for studying ingroup information and preferences in the context of ethnic groups. This paper studies the utility of the three perspectives in a particular interethnic group context among 160 Dutch subjects between 12 and 15 years of age. The results show that the evaluation of ethnic identity and rate of cross‐ethnic contact are strongly correl…
Ethnic categorization among children in multi‐ethnic schools in the Netherlands
In this study the use and importance of ethnic categories is investigated among children in multi‐ethnic schools. It is argued that concentrating on ethnic categories ignores the many alternative forms of social categorization that can be used. It also ignores the possibility that social categories are not used at all. In the present study children were not confronted with material that explicitly stressed ethnicity, nor were they forced to respo…
Ethnic Self-Identification and Psychological Well-Being among Minority Youth in the Netherlands
In the present study the question is addressed as to whether among minority youth alternative ways of ethnic self-identification are equally healthy in terms of psychological well-being. Four different types of self-identification were distinguished: dissociative, assmilative, acculturative, and marginal. All four were found among Turkish and Chinese youth living in the Netherlands. As predicted, the Turkish subjects showed a stronger dissociativ…
Books
Barry Troyna, Racism and Education. Research Perspectives, Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993, 158 pp., £37.50 h.b., £12.99 p.b. Mal Leicester, Race for a Change in Continuing and Higher Education, Buckingham: Open University Press with The Society for Research into Higher Education, 1993, 142 pp., £35.50 h.b., £12.99 p.b. Paul Hockenos, Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post‐Communist Eastern Europe, London: Routledge, 1993, 332 pp., £…
Similarities in anti-racist and racist discourse
This article discusses the way central liberal‐democratic values and notions are used in an anti‐racist as well as a more racist discourse. Eleven ethnic Dutch adults living in an old inner‐city quarter of Rotterdam spent four evenings discussing the situation in their neighbourhood. Transcripts of the discussions were analysed focusing on the commonplaces used in arguing about ethnic minority groups. The principal aim is to show how values such …
Racial Discourse, Attitude, and Rhetorical Manoeuvres
Eleven ethnically Dutch adults, living in an old neighborhood in the center of the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, discussed in twogroups during fourevenings the situation in their neighborhood. Transcripts of the discussions were analyzed focusing on racial attitudes and their expression. Three questionsguided the analysis. First, the relationship between holding strong views and the variability of attitudinal positions expressed in discou…
Self-esteem among ethnic minority youth in Western countries
New Racism’, Self-Esteem, and Ethnic Relations Among Minority and Majority Youth in the Netherlands
In Western Europe the concept of ‘new racism’ has emerged. The idea of the incompatibility of different cultures is central to this concept, and this idea leads to the abnormalization and exclusion of ethnic minority groups. This paper studies this form of ethnic prejudice and several of its correlates among ethnic majority and minority youth. The results show, first, that majority youth were more prejudiced than minority youth. Second, that amon…
Symbols and Social Representations
Journal for the Theory of Social BehaviourVolume 25, Issue 3 p. 263-284 Symbols and Social Representations MAYKEL VERKUYTEN, MAYKEL VERKUYTEN ‘Das ist the wahre Symbolik, wo das Besondere das Allgemeinere repraesentiert, nicht als Traum und Schatten, sondern als lebendig-augenblickliche Offenbarung des Unerforschlichen’(J.W. Goethe, Aus Kunst und Altertum) ‘(Symbolism has) the virtue of containing within a few conventional lines the thought of th…
Self-esteem, self-concept stability, and aspects of ethnic identity among minority and majority youth in the Netherlands
The construction of ethnic categories
This article is concerned with the way ethnic and racial categories are achieved and sustained in daily talk. We argue against the notion of social categories as immanent cognitive structures whose existence and significance can be taken for granted. It is emphasized that categories are constructed in discourse. The construction and representation of ethnic categories are studied by analysing discussions held by some ethnically Dutch inhabitants …
The Ethnic Hierarchy Among Majority and Minority Youth In The Netherlands
This study tests the hypothesis that ethnic groups have consensus about the relative position of ethnic out‐groups in society. A survey among ethnic majority and minority youth in the city of Rotterdam indicated that: (a) each ethnic group preferred the in‐group, (b) there was consensus on an ethnic hierarchy within ethnic groups, and (c) ethnic groups largely agreed on the ethnic rank order. Among the Dutch respondents, the ethnic hierarchy was …
Personal Self-Esteem and Prejudice among Ethnic Majority and Minority Youth
Ethnic Self-Identification, Ethnic Involvement, and Group Differentiation among Chinese Youth in the Netherlands
Ethnic self-identification among Chinese minority youth living in the Netherlands was explored. Four types of ethnic self-identification were differentially related to ethnic involvement and to intergroup differentiation, suggesting that group identification may be less straightforward than researchers have assumed. Collectivism as an individual difference variable was related to ethnic self-description and to ethnic involvement. In-group favorit…
Urban renewal, housing policy and ethnic relations in Rotterdam
This article focuses on the more subtle processes affecting urban transformation, rather than on more general urban patterns. The developments in two inner‐city neighbourhoods in Rotterdam are investigated in detail in order to understand local developments within this transformation process. The article provides a short historical overview of the urban renewal process in Rotterdam, and describes the impact this had on the housing situation of wo…
Twelve Angry Men
A numerical minority position is commonly associated with error, deviance, and/or weakness. Therefore, being a minority member poses a threat and minority members are urged to explain and account for their position. The present study has concentrated on how two British newspapers that strongly identified with the minority position taken by Britain at the European Union Maastricht summit in 1991 account for this position. The newspapers were analy…
Levels of Ethnic Self-Identification and Social Context
The present study examines three forms of ethnic self-identification among Dutch and Turkish children age 10-13 in relation to their school class. We distinguish between three forms: ethnic self-definition, ethnic self-evaluation, and ethnic group introjection. First, the results showed a cumulative dimension of identification: Ethnic group introjection was a higher level of identification than ethnic self-evaluation; both were higher than ethnic…
Intergroup evaluation and self-esteem motivations
According to Crocker et al. (1993) people with high collective self-esteem would be primarily concerned with enhancing the self leading to positive ingroup evaluation rather than derogation of outgroups. In contrast, people with low collective self-esteem would be primarily concerned with protecting the self making outgroup derogation more likely than positive ingroup evaluation. These predictions were confirmed among Dutch youth evaluating ethni…
Intergroup evaluation and self‐esteem motivations
According to Crocker et al. (1993) people with high collective self-esteem would be primarily concerned with enhancing the self leading to positive ingroup evaluation rather than derogation of outgroups. In contrast, people with low collective self-esteem would be primarily concerned with protecting the self making outgroup derogation more likely than positive ingroup evaluation. These predictions were confirmed among Dutch youth evaluating ethni…
Cultural discourses in the Netherlands
This paper examines how ethnic Dutch residents of two old neighborhoods in the city of Rotterdam use the notion of "culture" when they talk and argue among themselves about the multi‐ethnic area they live in. Some of the ways in which culture as a discourse is used are outlined and some of the possible effects such a discourse may have are discussed. It is shown that the term culture is used in a self‐evident and self‐sufficient way as a commonpl…
Perceived Discrimination and Self-Esteem Among Ethnic Minority Adolescents
In a sample of ethnic minority adolescents in The Netherlands, the relationship between perceived discrimination and self-esteem was investigated. First, the participants perceived a higher level of discrimination directed at their group as a whole than at themselves as individuals. Second, personal self-esteem was relatively independent of group self-esteem. Third, perceived personal discrimination was related to personal self-esteem, and percei…
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