J Christopher Cohrs
Biographic Data
| ID | 86157 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Christopher Cohrs |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohrs |
| SIGNATURE | COHRS J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Constructor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9477-1417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 358 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Art of Being Wrong: A Systematic Review and Integrative Model for Promoting Intellectual Humility
In an era of rising affective polarization, intellectual humility (IH)—the non‐threatening awareness of one's own intellectual fallibility—is gaining increasing importance. In light of fragmented evidence on how IH can be cultivated, we conducted a systematic review of 24 empirical studies to identify psychological competencies underlying IH and effective interventions to promote it. We identify a set of competencies and interventions, organized …
Sources of (Dis-)Identification with Europe: A Q-Methodological Approach
Although attachment to Europe has been widely studied, less is known about the motivations underlying identification and disidentification. This article addresses this gap by uncovering these dynamics through an illustrative study in Germany. We argue that the meaning of “Europe” varies among individuals and different aspects of Europe have different influences on (dis-)identification. In a Q-methodological online study, 80 German participants we…
Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities
Although social psychological research on how people understand collective victimization often examines comparisons between groups’ suffering, studies on related concepts (e.g., collective trauma) suggest numerous other relevant beliefs. The present article aimed to integrate diverse collective victimization beliefs and contribute to their conceptual analysis. Utilizing Q methodology, we examined how 60 collective victimization beliefs statements…
Exploring selective solidarity with refugees in Germany: The role of political orientation and national glorification / Exploración de la solidaridad selectiva con los refugiados en Alemania: el papel…
Studies and public opinion polls in Germany reveal double standards in the acceptance of Ukrainian versus Black/Arab and Muslim refugees. In three studies ( N = 2,839) conducted in Germany, we confirm a selective solidarity effect: Germans express more solidarity with Ukrainian compared to Afghan (Studies 1–3), Syrian and Eritrean refugees (Study 3). We further explored whether national glorification and political orientation exacerbate selective…
The West and the rest: The Westernised nature of Europe(anness)
Only the Blue‐Eyed Ones”: How Refugees' Origin and Gender Affect Selective Solidarity Through Perceived Similarity and Threat
This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics of racialization and masculinization of refugees, and rooted in social–psychological theories, that refugee origin and gender affect expressions of solidarity and that this can be explained through perceived similarity and threat. Study 1 ( N = 969) ex…
Effects of intellectual humility in the context of affective polarization: Approaching and avoiding others in controversial political discussions
1,668), we manipulated how intellectually humble a target person was perceived and measured participants' self-reported (topic-specific) intellectual humility. Results revealed that participants' intellectual humility was consistently negatively correlated with affective polarization. Additionally, intellectual humility of both the target person and the participants was beneficial, and sometimes even necessary, to make participants approach, and …
Enhancing Intellectual Humility About Political Topics: An Intervention Tournament Including Five Conceptual Replications
Intellectual humility, the recognition of one's intellectual limitations, is promising to make controversial political debates more constructive. However, it is unknown how to best enhance a person's intellectual humility in experiments or interventions. Therefore, we studied how to promote intellectual humility by adapting and conceptually replicating five different approaches suggested in previous work: the explanatory depth approach, growth mi…
How do members of a perpetrator group negotiate multiple past ingroup transgressions? A German case study
How members of perpetrator groups engage with their ingroup’s negative history has received increasing attention over the past years. Yet, little research has addressed how people psychologically negotiate multiple past ingroup transgressions. Across two studies ( n = 362), we exposed German participants to information about two ingroup transgressions, the Holocaust and the colonial genocide in former South West Africa, to test ideas of a multidi…
Who is We: Capturing Social Identity Content by Integrating Qualitative Methods in Survey-Based Approaches
The concept of social identity presents a significant challenge when attempting to capture the multifaceted meanings associated with it. A pertinent example of this complexity can be observed in the investigation of the underlying significance of European identity. Past quantitative research on social identity has largely focused on the extent to which individuals identify with Europe, and only in a limited way on the meaning and content of that …
Differentiating Between Belief-Indicative and Status-Indicative Groups Improves Predictions of Intergroup Attitudes
Ingroup bias is often treated as the default outcome of intergroup comparisons. We argue that the mechanisms of impression formation depend on what information people infer from groups. We differentiate between belief-indicative groups that are more informative of beliefs and affect attitudes through ingroup bias and status-indicative groups that are more informative of status and affect attitudes through a preference for higher status. In a cros…
Representing the peace/resolution process in Turkey: Mobilizing support for change or resisting it
Failed to unite? Conceptualizations of Bosnian–Herzegovinian national identity
Felt respect in political discussions with contrary-minded others
What makes people feel respected or disrespected in political discussions with contrary-minded others? In two survey studies, participants recalled a situation in which they had engaged in a discussion about a political topic. In Study 1 ( n = 126), we used qualitative methods to document a wide array of behaviors and expressions that made people feel (dis)respected in such discussions, and derived a list of nine motives that may have underlain t…
Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege
Multiple categorization and intergroup bias: Examining the generalizability of three theories of intergroup relations
Research on intergroup bias usually focuses on a single dimension of social categorization. In real life, however, people are aware of others' multiple group memberships and use this information to form attitudes about them. The present research tests the predictive power of identification, perceived conflict, and perceived symbolic threat in explaining the strength of intergroup bias on various dimensions of social categorization in multiple cat…
Adaptation and validation into Spanish of the moral outrage scale ( Adaptación y validación de la Escala de Indignación Moral al español )
Moral outrage, as an emotional reaction to the perception of injustices, is a key predictor of actions to reduce inequality. It is also a relevant construct for understanding system-justification and moral judgement–appraisal processes. However, studies in regions characterized by high social inequality, such as Latin America, are limited partly because there is no Spanish scale to measure moral outrage. In this study we seek to adapt and obtain …
The role of comparative victim beliefs in predicting support for hostile versus prosocial intergroup outcomes
Collective memories of historical ingroup victimization can be linked to prosocial or hostile intergroup outcomes. We hypothesize that such discrepant responses are predicted by different construals of the ingroup's victimization in relation to other groups (i.e., comparative victim beliefs). Using improved measures of inclusive and exclusive victim beliefs, with a global or regional reference group, multigroup structural equation modeling showed…
Redefining the Meaning of Negative History in Times of Sociopolitical Change: A Social Creativity Approach
This article explores the role negative history plays in political discourse on crisis management and how times of sociopolitical change in turn influence the strategies that can be employed to write a positive historical charter. Choosing Germany as a case study, we analyzed how political leaders negotiate Germany's narrative and political role during the European “refugee crisis” in speeches (n = 332) held between 2015 and 2018. Applying a comb…
Explicaciones sobre el origen de la pobreza según área de formación profesional
La manera en que las personas y grupos explican la pobreza condiciona cómo se relacionan con ella. El presente trabajo indaga las explicaciones sobre el origen de la pobreza de estudiantes universitarios y analiza la relación de este posicionamiento con su área de formación profesional. Se administró un instrumento de evaluación que considera tres tipos de atribuciones -individualista, socioestructural y fatalista- a una muestra de 448 estudiante…
Are Liberals and Conservatives Equally Motivated to Feel Empathy Toward Others?
Do liberals and conservatives differ in their empathy toward others? This question has been difficult to resolve due to methodological constraints and common use of ideologically biased targets. To more adequately address this question, we examined how much empathy liberals and conservatives want to feel, how much empathy they actually feel, and how willing they are to help others. We used targets that are equivalent in the degree to which libera…
Nationhood as a social representation: Making sense of the Kurdish opening in Turkey
Years After: What is the relation between pacifist attitudes and social representations of the Great War
In this paper we use a social representational perspective to consider the interplay between pacifist attitudes and representations of World War I, on a large sample of European students. WWI gave rise to pacifist movements across the globe. Across 10 European countries (N = 1347 undergraduate students), we invited participants to report the first five words that came to their mind when thinking about this event and measured their level of pacifi…
If we become friends, maybe I can change my perspective: ” Intergroup contact, endorsement of conflict narratives, and peace-related attitudes in Turkey
Examining the ethos of conflict by exploring lay people’s representations of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey
Societies in conflicts develop an ‘ethos of conflict’, a set of socially shared beliefs about the conflict. We argue that the ethos of conflict can be based on different representations of the conflict, and exploring such representations helps to analyze similarities and differences between and within conflict parties. We explored representations of the Kurdish conflict among 45 laypeople in a multi-ethnic city in Turkey based on comprehensive mo…
Right‐wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and prejudice against threatening and competitive ethnic groups
This research rests on the assumption that individual differences approaches to prejudice benefit from an integration of intergroup factors. Following Duckitt (2001), we assumed that two prominent individual differences variables, right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), would differentially predict majority members' levels of ethnic prejudice depending on specific factors of the intergroup context: RWA as an inde…
Determinants of Human Rights Attitudes and Behavior: A Comparison and Integration of Psychological Perspectives
Following several political‐psychological approaches, the present research analyzed whether orientations toward human rights are a function of right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), basic human values in the sense of Schwartz (1992), and political ideology. Three dimensions of human rights attitudes (endorsement, restriction, and enforcement) were differentiated from human rights knowledge and behavior. In a time‐l…
How Ideological Attitudes Predict Host Society Members’ Attitudes toward Immigrants: Exploring Cross-National Differences
Recent theoretical frameworks assume that the ideological attitudes of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) predict individuals’ attitudes toward immigrant groups, and that these predictive relations are affected by contextual factors. Based on these assumptions, we conducted a meta-analysis of the relations between ideological attitudes and anti-immigrant attitudes in 155 samples from 17 countries (total N = 3…
The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice
The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but also the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the twenty-first century, the promise of social psychology remains incomplete. We witness the reprise of authoritarianism and the endurance of institutionalized forms of oppression such as sexism, racism, and heterosexism…
The two-sided role of inclusive victimhood for intergroup reconciliation: Evidence from Northern Ireland
Inclusive victim beliefs (i.e., perceived similarity with other victim groups worldwide) can have positive effects on intergroup relations.However, there may be limitations to these seemingly constructive construals.We investigated in the Northern Irish context whether inclusive victimhood might sometimes also act as an obstacle to intergroup reconciliation.In Study 1, we found that inclusive victimhood can go along with either high or low compet…
Terrorism Salience increases System Justification: Experimental Evidence
Personal Values and Attitudes Toward War
Psychological determinants of generalized militaristic attitudes and attitudes toward specific wars were analyzed on the basis of 2 waves of a large German survey on attitudes after September 11, 2001 (Ns = 1,548 and 540). Personal values—as defined by the theory of basic human values by Schwartz (1992)— as well as ideological attitudes, threat of terrorism, and concern for human costs as mediators, were taken into account. Militaristic attitudes…
Examining the ethos of conflict by exploring lay people’s representations of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey
Societies in conflicts develop an ‘ethos of conflict’, a set of socially shared beliefs about the conflict. We argue that the ethos of conflict can be based on different representations of the conflict, and exploring such representations helps to analyze similarities and differences between and within conflict parties. We explored representations of the Kurdish conflict among 45 laypeople in a multi-ethnic city in Turkey based on comprehensive mo…
If we become friends, maybe I can change my perspective: ” Intergroup contact, endorsement of conflict narratives, and peace-related attitudes in Turkey
An exploration of lay people’s Kurdish conflict frames in Turkey
The role of comparative victim beliefs in predicting support for hostile versus prosocial intergroup outcomes
Collective memories of historical ingroup victimization can be linked to prosocial or hostile intergroup outcomes. We hypothesize that such discrepant responses are predicted by different construals of the ingroup's victimization in relation to other groups (i.e., comparative victim beliefs). Using improved measures of inclusive and exclusive victim beliefs, with a global or regional reference group, multigroup structural equation modeling showed…
Antiwar knowledge and generalized political attitudes as determinants of attitude toward the Kosovo war
Reviewing research on determinants of war attitudes, antiwar knowledge is identified as an underresearched predictor of attitudes toward specific wars. In this article, the joint effects of specific antiwar knowledge and generalized attitudes (militarism-pacifism, authoritarianism, and diffuse political support) on evaluation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military intervention in Yugoslavia are investigated in a sample of 165 German uni…
Individual differences in ideological attitudes and prejudice: Evidence from peer-report data
Our knowledge on the personality basis of ideological attitudes and prejudice, while based on a substantial body of research, suffers from a potentially serious methodological limitation: an overreliance on the method of self-reports. Across 2 studies (Ns = 193, 424), we examined associations between the Big Five personality dimensions, Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), and generalized prejudice, using both se…
Multiple categorization and intergroup bias: Examining the generalizability of three theories of intergroup relations
Research on intergroup bias usually focuses on a single dimension of social categorization. In real life, however, people are aware of others' multiple group memberships and use this information to form attitudes about them. The present research tests the predictive power of identification, perceived conflict, and perceived symbolic threat in explaining the strength of intergroup bias on various dimensions of social categorization in multiple cat…
A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering in World War I across Europe
The present study addresses antecedents and consequences of collective victimhood in the context of World War I (WWI) across 15 European nations ( N = 2423 social science students). Using multilevel analysis, we find evidence that collective victimhood is still present a hundred years after the onset of the war and can be predicted by WWI‐related objective indicators of victimization at national and family levels. This suggests that collective vi…
How Irish Citizens Negotiate Foreign Policy: A Social Representations Approach to Neutrality
The present study investigates the relationship between the foreign policy orientation of Irish neutrality and national identity using a social representations approach (Elcheroth, Doise, & Reicher, 2011; Moscovici, 1961/76). In four focus groups conducted in the Republic of Ireland, 22 participants discussed vignettes in which hypothetical conflicts were described. The findings pointed towards the dynamic relationship between neutrality and Iris…
Contributions of positive psychology to peace: Toward global well-being and resilience
In this article, we analyze the relationship between positive psychology and peace psychology. We discuss how positive emotions, engagement, meaning, personal well-being, and resilience may impact peace at different levels, ranging from the personal and interpersonal to community, national, and global peace. First, we argue that an individual's positive experiences, personal well-being, and personal resilience, as defined in current positive psyc…
Appraisal of male privilege: On the dual role of identity threat and shame in response to confrontations with male privilege
Psychology and human rights: Introduction to the special issue
This introduction serves to orient the reader to this special issue of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology on the topic of psychology and human rights (HR). We provide a brief overview of the history of the concept of HR, the primary theoretical and empirical contributions to date within the field of psychology, and how various psychological organizations use the term today. We then summarize how HR fits into social psychological peac…
Effects of intellectual humility in the context of affective polarization: Approaching and avoiding others in controversial political discussions
1,668), we manipulated how intellectually humble a target person was perceived and measured participants' self-reported (topic-specific) intellectual humility. Results revealed that participants' intellectual humility was consistently negatively correlated with affective polarization. Additionally, intellectual humility of both the target person and the participants was beneficial, and sometimes even necessary, to make participants approach, and …
Redefining the Meaning of Negative History in Times of Sociopolitical Change: A Social Creativity Approach
This article explores the role negative history plays in political discourse on crisis management and how times of sociopolitical change in turn influence the strategies that can be employed to write a positive historical charter. Choosing Germany as a case study, we analyzed how political leaders negotiate Germany's narrative and political role during the European “refugee crisis” in speeches (n = 332) held between 2015 and 2018. Applying a comb…
Nationhood as a social representation: Making sense of the Kurdish opening in Turkey
Social Psychology and Peace: An Introductory Overview
This paper begins by giving an overview of why and in which ways social psychological research can be relevant to peace. Galtung's (1969) distinction between negative peace (the absence of direct violence) and positive peace (the absence of structural violence, or the presence of social justice) is crossed with a focus on factors that are detrimental (obstacles) to peace versus factors that are conducive to peace (catalysts), yielding a two-by-tw…
Towards a Conceptual Integration of Collective Victimization Beliefs and Their Variation Within and Across Contexts: A Q Methodology Study in Five Communities
Although social psychological research on how people understand collective victimization often examines comparisons between groups’ suffering, studies on related concepts (e.g., collective trauma) suggest numerous other relevant beliefs. The present article aimed to integrate diverse collective victimization beliefs and contribute to their conceptual analysis. Utilizing Q methodology, we examined how 60 collective victimization beliefs statements…
The West and the rest: The Westernised nature of Europe(anness)
Antiwar knowledge and generalized political attitudes as determinants of attitude toward the Kosovo war
Reviewing research on determinants of war attitudes, antiwar knowledge is identified as an underresearched predictor of attitudes toward specific wars. In this article, the joint effects of specific antiwar knowledge and generalized attitudes (militarism-pacifism, authoritarianism, and diffuse political support) on evaluation of North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military intervention in Yugoslavia are investigated in a sample of 165 German uni…
Effects of Right‐Wing Authoritarianism and Threat from Terrorism on Restriction of Civil Liberties
In an Internet survey (N = 275), we investigated how right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), personal values, and political ideology predicted attitudes toward restriction of civil liberties and toward surveillance measured one year later. Feelings of threat from terrorism were also taken into account. RWA, SDO, political ideology, security values, and self‐direction values were significant predictors. In addition, …
The Motivational Bases of Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation: Relations to Values and Attitudes in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001
Research suggests that different motivational dynamics underlie right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO). These differences may be framed in the theory of basic human values. RWA may trace back to conservation versus openness-to-change values, and SDO to self-enhancement versus self-transcendence values. Based on a large-scale German survey, associations of RWA and SDO with personal values and attitudes in the afte…
Personal Values and Attitudes Toward War
Psychological determinants of generalized militaristic attitudes and attitudes toward specific wars were analyzed on the basis of 2 waves of a large German survey on attitudes after September 11, 2001 (Ns = 1,548 and 540). Personal values—as defined by the theory of basic human values by Schwartz (1992)— as well as ideological attitudes, threat of terrorism, and concern for human costs as mediators, were taken into account. Militaristic attitudes…
Determinants of Human Rights Attitudes and Behavior: A Comparison and Integration of Psychological Perspectives
Following several political‐psychological approaches, the present research analyzed whether orientations toward human rights are a function of right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), basic human values in the sense of Schwartz (1992), and political ideology. Three dimensions of human rights attitudes (endorsement, restriction, and enforcement) were differentiated from human rights knowledge and behavior. In a time‐l…
Terrorism Salience increases System Justification: Experimental Evidence
Social Psychology and Peace
The police officer's terrorist dilemma: Trust resilience following fatal errors
Suicide attacks have raised the stakes for officers deciding whether or not to shoot a suspect (‘Police Officer's Terrorist Dilemma’). Despite high‐profile errors we know little about how trust in the police is affected by their response to the terrorist threat. Building on a conceptualisation of lay observers as intuitive signal detection theorists, a general population sample ( N = 1153) were presented with scenarios manipulated in terms of sus…
Social Psychology and Peace: An Introductory Overview
This paper begins by giving an overview of why and in which ways social psychological research can be relevant to peace. Galtung's (1969) distinction between negative peace (the absence of direct violence) and positive peace (the absence of structural violence, or the presence of social justice) is crossed with a focus on factors that are detrimental (obstacles) to peace versus factors that are conducive to peace (catalysts), yielding a two-by-tw…
Right‐wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation and prejudice against threatening and competitive ethnic groups
This research rests on the assumption that individual differences approaches to prejudice benefit from an integration of intergroup factors. Following Duckitt (2001), we assumed that two prominent individual differences variables, right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), would differentially predict majority members' levels of ethnic prejudice depending on specific factors of the intergroup context: RWA as an inde…
How Ideological Attitudes Predict Host Society Members’ Attitudes toward Immigrants: Exploring Cross-National Differences
Recent theoretical frameworks assume that the ideological attitudes of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) predict individuals’ attitudes toward immigrant groups, and that these predictive relations are affected by contextual factors. Based on these assumptions, we conducted a meta-analysis of the relations between ideological attitudes and anti-immigrant attitudes in 155 samples from 17 countries (total N = 3…
Authoritarian Personality
How was it possible that the persecution and mass killing of Jews, people with mental or physical disabilities, homosexual persons, political dissidents, and other minorities, as well as the policy of “forcible coordination” (Gleichschaltung) found the support of millions of Germans during the Third Reich? How was it possible that accusations of thousands of government employees, educators, union activists, and people in the entertainment industr…
Friend or Foe, Champ or Chump? Social Conformity and Superiority Goals Activate Warmth-Versus Competence-Based Social Categorization Schemas
Evaluations of individuals and social groups refer to two basic dimensions of social judgment: warmth and competence. Although previous research has explored the antecedents and consequences of these evaluations, there is a lack of understanding of the conditions under which warmth and competence information is used for social categorization in the first place. The present research developed a novel measure of individuals’ tendencies to categoriz…
Individual differences in ideological attitudes and prejudice: Evidence from peer-report data
Our knowledge on the personality basis of ideological attitudes and prejudice, while based on a substantial body of research, suffers from a potentially serious methodological limitation: an overreliance on the method of self-reports. Across 2 studies (Ns = 193, 424), we examined associations between the Big Five personality dimensions, Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA), Social Dominance Orientation (SDO), and generalized prejudice, using both se…
Social Dominance in Context and in Individuals: Contextual Moderation of Robust Effects of Social Dominance Orientation in 15 Languages and 20 Countries
We tested the internal reliability and predictive validity of a new 4-item Short Social Dominance Orientation (SSDO) scale among adults in 20 countries, using 15 languages ( N = 2,130). Low scores indicate preferring group inclusion and equality to dominance. As expected, cross-nationally, the lower people were on SSDO, the more they endorsed more women in leadership positions, protecting minorities, and aid to the poor. Multilevel moderation mod…
Welcome to a New International Open-Access Journal in Social and Political Psychology
publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. The journal also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (such as peace psychology, community psychology, critical psychology, cultural psychology, etc.) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspe…
Contributions of positive psychology to peace: Toward global well-being and resilience
In this article, we analyze the relationship between positive psychology and peace psychology. We discuss how positive emotions, engagement, meaning, personal well-being, and resilience may impact peace at different levels, ranging from the personal and interpersonal to community, national, and global peace. First, we argue that an individual's positive experiences, personal well-being, and personal resilience, as defined in current positive psyc…
Psychology and human rights: Introduction to the special issue
This introduction serves to orient the reader to this special issue of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology on the topic of psychology and human rights (HR). We provide a brief overview of the history of the concept of HR, the primary theoretical and empirical contributions to date within the field of psychology, and how various psychological organizations use the term today. We then summarize how HR fits into social psychological peac…
The two-sided role of inclusive victimhood for intergroup reconciliation: Evidence from Northern Ireland
Inclusive victim beliefs (i.e., perceived similarity with other victim groups worldwide) can have positive effects on intergroup relations.However, there may be limitations to these seemingly constructive construals.We investigated in the Northern Irish context whether inclusive victimhood might sometimes also act as an obstacle to intergroup reconciliation.In Study 1, we found that inclusive victimhood can go along with either high or low compet…
El empleo para la justicia social: La importancia de los factores contextuales para la inclusión laboral de personas con discapacidad
El interés por el Emprendedurismo ha ido ganando cada vez más atención como una posible estrategia de empleo para las personas con discapacidad y como una forma de justicia social. Sin embargo, poco se sabe acerca de las experiencias de emprendedores con discapacidad en relación con sus necesidades de recursos, las oportunidades para la participación, y los obstáculos que encuentran a nivel contextual. Esto se debe a que las investigaciones suele…
An exploration of lay people’s Kurdish conflict frames in Turkey
How Irish Citizens Negotiate Foreign Policy: A Social Representations Approach to Neutrality
The present study investigates the relationship between the foreign policy orientation of Irish neutrality and national identity using a social representations approach (Elcheroth, Doise, & Reicher, 2011; Moscovici, 1961/76). In four focus groups conducted in the Republic of Ireland, 22 participants discussed vignettes in which hypothetical conflicts were described. The findings pointed towards the dynamic relationship between neutrality and Iris…
The Oxford Handbook of Social Psychology and Social Justice
The twentieth century witnessed not only the devastation of war, conflict, and injustice on a massive scale, but also the emergence of social psychology as a discipline committed to addressing these and other social problems. In the twenty-first century, the promise of social psychology remains incomplete. We witness the reprise of authoritarianism and the endurance of institutionalized forms of oppression such as sexism, racism, and heterosexism…
If we become friends, maybe I can change my perspective: ” Intergroup contact, endorsement of conflict narratives, and peace-related attitudes in Turkey
Examining the ethos of conflict by exploring lay people’s representations of the Kurdish conflict in Turkey
Societies in conflicts develop an ‘ethos of conflict’, a set of socially shared beliefs about the conflict. We argue that the ethos of conflict can be based on different representations of the conflict, and exploring such representations helps to analyze similarities and differences between and within conflict parties. We explored representations of the Kurdish conflict among 45 laypeople in a multi-ethnic city in Turkey based on comprehensive mo…
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