Peter R Grant
Biographic Data
| ID | 133944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter R Grant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter R |
| FAMILY NAME | Grant |
| SIGNATURE | GRANT P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7347-5758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Changing Our Ideas: The Role of Social Change Beliefs in the Outcome of the UK 2024 General Election
The 2024 UK general election heralded the first change of government for 14 years. Based on social identity theory, we tested the IDEAS model to predict why supporters of different oppositional parties rejected the party in power. Previous tests of the IDEAS model had focused on attitudinal support and intentions for specific causes such as separatism, whereas the present study addressed its capacity to explain behaviour—voting for change—regardl…
Enchanted by Daphne: The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist
Activism in the time of Covid-19
In many countries, COVID-19 has amplified the health, economic and social inequities that motivate group-based collective action. We draw upon the SIRDE/IDEAS model of social change to explore how the pandemic might have affected complex reactions to social injustices. We argue that the virus elicits widespread negative emotions which are spread contagiously through social media due to increased social isolation caused by shelter-in-place directi…
How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches
Hybridization in human evolution: Insights from other organisms
During the late Pleistocene, isolated lineages of hominins exchanged genes thus influencing genomic variation in humans in both the past and present. However, the dynamics of this genetic exchange and associated phenotypic consequences through time remain poorly understood. Gene exchange across divergent lineages can result in myriad outcomes arising from these dynamics and the environmental conditions under which it occurs. Here we draw from our…
Hybridization in human evolution: Insights from other organisms
During the late Pleistocene, isolated lineages of hominins exchanged genes thus influencing genomic variation in humans in both the past and present. However, the dynamics of this genetic exchange and associated phenotypic consequences through time remain poorly understood. Gene exchange across divergent lineages can result in myriad outcomes arising from these dynamics and the environmental conditions under which it occurs. Here we draw from our…
Canadian, Eh: An Examination of the Multidimensional Structure and Functions of the National Identity of Immigrants and of Those Raised in Canada
Three studies examined the national identity of Canadian immigrants. In Study 1, immigrant leaders were interviewed about their Canadian identity. Content analysis revealed themes that were used to create items for the Immigrants' Canadian Identity Scale (ICIS). Then a large sample of immigrants (Study 2a) and Canadians raised in Canada (Study 2b) completed the ICIS and a variety of other variables. Factor analyses revealed a shared social repres…
Predicting Protests by Disadvantaged Skilled Immigrants: A Test of an Integrated Social Identity, Relative Deprivation, Collective Efficacy (Sirde) Model
Testing the social identity relative deprivation (Sird) model of social change: The political rise of Scottish nationalism
We tested a social‐identity relative deprivation (SIRD) model predicting Scottish nationalist beliefs and intention to vote for the separatist Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP). Data were from a survey of a large and representative sample of Scottish teenagers administered in the late 1980s. The SIRD model distinguishes effects of group‐based and personal relative deprivation, which should be independent of one another. Importantly, social change …
Sustaining a Strong Cultural and National Identity: The Acculturation of Immigrants and Second-generation Canadians of Asian and African Descent
The Credentialing Problems of Foreign Trained Personnel from Asia and Africa Intending to Make their Home in Canada: A Social Psychological Perspective
Accessing the Higher Echelons of a Host Country’s Labour Market: Policy Directions from the Personal Experiences of Skilled Immigrants
The Stereotypes of Black and White Women in Fashion Magazine Photographs: The Pose of the Model and the Impression She Creates
Darwin in the Galápagos: His footsteps through the archipelago
Charles Darwin visited Galápagos for five weeks, from 15 September to 20 October, in 1835. This is a small fraction of the total of 248 weeks he spent on the voyage of the HMS Beagle (27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836), yet his experiences in Galápagos were of disproportionate importance in the development of his scientific thinking. As he wrote in his autobiography, he was deeply influenced by his discovery of the similarity of Galápagos plants…
From Ethnocentrism to Collective Protest: Responses to Relative Deprivation and Threats to Social Identity
Peter R. Grant, Rupert Brown, From Ethnocentrism to Collective Protest: Responses to Relative Deprivation and Threats to Social Identity, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 195-212
The Comparative Utility of Third Party Consultation and Mediation Within a Complex Simulation of Intergroup Conflict
Third party interventions designed to de-escalate intergroup conflict can be differentiated by their underlying assumptions regarding conflict. Process-oriented approaches such as third-party consultation try to de-escalate conflict by taking a subjective emphasis and focusing on the basic relationship between parties, their attitudes, and their perceptions. Traditional third-party interventions, particularly mediation, try to de-escalate conflic…
The Influences of Commitment to Justice and Ethnocentrism on Children's Allocations of Pay
In this study Grade 3 and Grade 6 children, acting as supervisors, observed a videotape of two Grade 7 boys (workers) trying to make as many shoe-box towers as possible during a set time period. One worker was from the same ethnic group as the children (white Anglo-Saxon);' the other was of East Indian origin. The children were led to believe that either the majority or the minority worker was twice as productive as the other, and that the worker…
The Influence of Stereotypes in Impression Formation: A Reply to Locksley, Hepburn, and Ortiz
This paper discusses the evidence that led us to conclude that stereotypes play an important role in social perception (Grant and Holmes, 1981:114). We show that despite the criticisms of Locksley, Hepburn, and Ortiz (1982) this conclusion is completely justified. Specifically, Locksley and her colleagues are incorrect when they argue that our experimental design was inadequate, and the reanalysis reported by those authors misses a fundamental di…
The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotype Images
Subjects were asked to form an impression of either an Irish or a Chinese stimulus person described by two traits. These traits were either part of the stereotype image of the stimulus person's ethnic group, or were unrelated to this image. Results showed that the Irish stereotype traits were used to characterize the Irish stimulus persons and Chinese stereotype traits were used to characterize the Chinese stimulus person, whatever their trait de…
Four Galápagos Islands
From Ethnocentrism to Collective Protest: Responses to Relative Deprivation and Threats to Social Identity
Peter R. Grant, Rupert Brown, From Ethnocentrism to Collective Protest: Responses to Relative Deprivation and Threats to Social Identity, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 195-212
The Credentialing Problems of Foreign Trained Personnel from Asia and Africa Intending to Make their Home in Canada: A Social Psychological Perspective
Activism in the time of Covid-19
In many countries, COVID-19 has amplified the health, economic and social inequities that motivate group-based collective action. We draw upon the SIRDE/IDEAS model of social change to explore how the pandemic might have affected complex reactions to social injustices. We argue that the virus elicits widespread negative emotions which are spread contagiously through social media due to increased social isolation caused by shelter-in-place directi…
The Stereotypes of Black and White Women in Fashion Magazine Photographs: The Pose of the Model and the Impression She Creates
The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotype Images
Subjects were asked to form an impression of either an Irish or a Chinese stimulus person described by two traits. These traits were either part of the stereotype image of the stimulus person's ethnic group, or were unrelated to this image. Results showed that the Irish stereotype traits were used to characterize the Irish stimulus persons and Chinese stereotype traits were used to characterize the Chinese stimulus person, whatever their trait de…
Canadian, Eh: An Examination of the Multidimensional Structure and Functions of the National Identity of Immigrants and of Those Raised in Canada
Three studies examined the national identity of Canadian immigrants. In Study 1, immigrant leaders were interviewed about their Canadian identity. Content analysis revealed themes that were used to create items for the Immigrants' Canadian Identity Scale (ICIS). Then a large sample of immigrants (Study 2a) and Canadians raised in Canada (Study 2b) completed the ICIS and a variety of other variables. Factor analyses revealed a shared social repres…
Sustaining a Strong Cultural and National Identity: The Acculturation of Immigrants and Second-generation Canadians of Asian and African Descent
Accessing the Higher Echelons of a Host Country’s Labour Market: Policy Directions from the Personal Experiences of Skilled Immigrants
The Influence of Stereotypes in Impression Formation: A Reply to Locksley, Hepburn, and Ortiz
This paper discusses the evidence that led us to conclude that stereotypes play an important role in social perception (Grant and Holmes, 1981:114). We show that despite the criticisms of Locksley, Hepburn, and Ortiz (1982) this conclusion is completely justified. Specifically, Locksley and her colleagues are incorrect when they argue that our experimental design was inadequate, and the reanalysis reported by those authors misses a fundamental di…
Predicting Protests by Disadvantaged Skilled Immigrants: A Test of an Integrated Social Identity, Relative Deprivation, Collective Efficacy (Sirde) Model
The Comparative Utility of Third Party Consultation and Mediation Within a Complex Simulation of Intergroup Conflict
Third party interventions designed to de-escalate intergroup conflict can be differentiated by their underlying assumptions regarding conflict. Process-oriented approaches such as third-party consultation try to de-escalate conflict by taking a subjective emphasis and focusing on the basic relationship between parties, their attitudes, and their perceptions. Traditional third-party interventions, particularly mediation, try to de-escalate conflic…
Hybridization in human evolution: Insights from other organisms
During the late Pleistocene, isolated lineages of hominins exchanged genes thus influencing genomic variation in humans in both the past and present. However, the dynamics of this genetic exchange and associated phenotypic consequences through time remain poorly understood. Gene exchange across divergent lineages can result in myriad outcomes arising from these dynamics and the environmental conditions under which it occurs. Here we draw from our…
Four Galápagos Islands
The Integration of Implicit Personality Theory Schemas and Stereotype Images
Subjects were asked to form an impression of either an Irish or a Chinese stimulus person described by two traits. These traits were either part of the stereotype image of the stimulus person's ethnic group, or were unrelated to this image. Results showed that the Irish stereotype traits were used to characterize the Irish stimulus persons and Chinese stereotype traits were used to characterize the Chinese stimulus person, whatever their trait de…
The Influence of Stereotypes in Impression Formation: A Reply to Locksley, Hepburn, and Ortiz
This paper discusses the evidence that led us to conclude that stereotypes play an important role in social perception (Grant and Holmes, 1981:114). We show that despite the criticisms of Locksley, Hepburn, and Ortiz (1982) this conclusion is completely justified. Specifically, Locksley and her colleagues are incorrect when they argue that our experimental design was inadequate, and the reanalysis reported by those authors misses a fundamental di…
The Influences of Commitment to Justice and Ethnocentrism on Children's Allocations of Pay
In this study Grade 3 and Grade 6 children, acting as supervisors, observed a videotape of two Grade 7 boys (workers) trying to make as many shoe-box towers as possible during a set time period. One worker was from the same ethnic group as the children (white Anglo-Saxon);' the other was of East Indian origin. The children were led to believe that either the majority or the minority worker was twice as productive as the other, and that the worker…
The Comparative Utility of Third Party Consultation and Mediation Within a Complex Simulation of Intergroup Conflict
Third party interventions designed to de-escalate intergroup conflict can be differentiated by their underlying assumptions regarding conflict. Process-oriented approaches such as third-party consultation try to de-escalate conflict by taking a subjective emphasis and focusing on the basic relationship between parties, their attitudes, and their perceptions. Traditional third-party interventions, particularly mediation, try to de-escalate conflic…
From Ethnocentrism to Collective Protest: Responses to Relative Deprivation and Threats to Social Identity
Peter R. Grant, Rupert Brown, From Ethnocentrism to Collective Protest: Responses to Relative Deprivation and Threats to Social Identity, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 195-212
Darwin in the Galápagos: His footsteps through the archipelago
Charles Darwin visited Galápagos for five weeks, from 15 September to 20 October, in 1835. This is a small fraction of the total of 248 weeks he spent on the voyage of the HMS Beagle (27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836), yet his experiences in Galápagos were of disproportionate importance in the development of his scientific thinking. As he wrote in his autobiography, he was deeply influenced by his discovery of the similarity of Galápagos plants…
The Stereotypes of Black and White Women in Fashion Magazine Photographs: The Pose of the Model and the Impression She Creates
Sustaining a Strong Cultural and National Identity: The Acculturation of Immigrants and Second-generation Canadians of Asian and African Descent
The Credentialing Problems of Foreign Trained Personnel from Asia and Africa Intending to Make their Home in Canada: A Social Psychological Perspective
Accessing the Higher Echelons of a Host Country’s Labour Market: Policy Directions from the Personal Experiences of Skilled Immigrants
Testing the social identity relative deprivation (Sird) model of social change: The political rise of Scottish nationalism
We tested a social‐identity relative deprivation (SIRD) model predicting Scottish nationalist beliefs and intention to vote for the separatist Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP). Data were from a survey of a large and representative sample of Scottish teenagers administered in the late 1980s. The SIRD model distinguishes effects of group‐based and personal relative deprivation, which should be independent of one another. Importantly, social change …
Predicting Protests by Disadvantaged Skilled Immigrants: A Test of an Integrated Social Identity, Relative Deprivation, Collective Efficacy (Sirde) Model
Canadian, Eh: An Examination of the Multidimensional Structure and Functions of the National Identity of Immigrants and of Those Raised in Canada
Three studies examined the national identity of Canadian immigrants. In Study 1, immigrant leaders were interviewed about their Canadian identity. Content analysis revealed themes that were used to create items for the Immigrants' Canadian Identity Scale (ICIS). Then a large sample of immigrants (Study 2a) and Canadians raised in Canada (Study 2b) completed the ICIS and a variety of other variables. Factor analyses revealed a shared social repres…
Hybridization in human evolution: Insights from other organisms
During the late Pleistocene, isolated lineages of hominins exchanged genes thus influencing genomic variation in humans in both the past and present. However, the dynamics of this genetic exchange and associated phenotypic consequences through time remain poorly understood. Gene exchange across divergent lineages can result in myriad outcomes arising from these dynamics and the environmental conditions under which it occurs. Here we draw from our…
Hybridization in human evolution: Insights from other organisms
During the late Pleistocene, isolated lineages of hominins exchanged genes thus influencing genomic variation in humans in both the past and present. However, the dynamics of this genetic exchange and associated phenotypic consequences through time remain poorly understood. Gene exchange across divergent lineages can result in myriad outcomes arising from these dynamics and the environmental conditions under which it occurs. Here we draw from our…
How and Why Species Multiply: The Radiation of Darwin's Finches
Activism in the time of Covid-19
In many countries, COVID-19 has amplified the health, economic and social inequities that motivate group-based collective action. We draw upon the SIRDE/IDEAS model of social change to explore how the pandemic might have affected complex reactions to social injustices. We argue that the virus elicits widespread negative emotions which are spread contagiously through social media due to increased social isolation caused by shelter-in-place directi…
Enchanted by Daphne: The Life of an Evolutionary Naturalist
Changing Our Ideas: The Role of Social Change Beliefs in the Outcome of the UK 2024 General Election
The 2024 UK general election heralded the first change of government for 14 years. Based on social identity theory, we tested the IDEAS model to predict why supporters of different oppositional parties rejected the party in power. Previous tests of the IDEAS model had focused on attitudinal support and intentions for specific causes such as separatism, whereas the present study addressed its capacity to explain behaviour—voting for change—regardl…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (7 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works)