Jonas R Kunst
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 917826 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jonas R Kunst |
| PRENOMES | Jonas R |
| SOBRENOME | Kunst |
| ASSINATURA | KUNST J R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5319-1256 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 566 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 14 |
The mental health–politics nexus
With political polarization increasing, it is important to understand the development of political preferences. Previously, adolescent mental health problems have been linked to lower adulthood voting rates, while relationships between life trajectories of mental health and political attitudes and orientations remain largely underexplored. Using longitudinal data from the population‐based cohort Young in Norway ( N = 2215) spanning three decades,…
Cultural Tightness-Looseness and Individual Differences in Non-Normativeness Predict Stigmatization of Out-Groups
Although a large body of research has focused on the determinants of stigma, multilevel approaches that can identify both micro- and macro-level influences are rarely employed. We adopted a multilevel perspective with data from 174,325 participants from 80 countries in two waves—Wave 5 (Study 1) and Wave 6 (Study 2) of the World Values Survey. We examined how country-level normative tightness-looseness and individual-level non-normativeness relat…
Investigating object orientation effects across 18 languages
Mental simulation theories of language comprehension propose that people automatically create mental representations of objects mentioned in sentences. Mental representation is often measured with the sentence-picture verification task, wherein participants first read a sentence that implies the object property (i.e., shape and orientation). Participants then respond to an image of an object by indicating whether it was an object from the sentenc…
Redefining the mainstream
The whole thing is a juggling act”
Drawing on goal systems theory (Kruglanski et al., 2002), this preregistered study explored the relationships between political and non-political goals among individuals with varying levels of political engagement. We conducted 40 semi-structured qualitative interviews with activists, non-activists, and former activists from Poland and Norway. We identify three recurrent relationships between political and other life goals, such as work, relation…
The Role of (Non)religious Worldviews and Morality in Explaining Attitudes Towards Outgroups
Individual and community post‐traumatic growth
This study investigated factors associated with post‐traumatic growth (PTG) after severe traumatic societal events. Utilizing a quota‐representative sample of 931 Israeli Jews, we assessed individual and community PTG following the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023, alongside a range of factors guided by Bronfenbrenner's Process‐Person‐Context‐Time (PPCT) model. Using data‐driven techniques, we identified three distinct growth profiles: relatively h…
Understanding perceived Covid-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion
The role of norms and acculturation in migrants' willingness to seek mental health care
Our results suggest that participants may show more willingness to seek help than they believe others in their own group do. This misperception of norms may contribute to hindering help-seeking. While all group norms played a role in own willingness to seek help, presumed approval from family and friends may play a more pivotal role. The role of own group and majority group norms depends on individuals' acculturation orientations. Tailored interv…
The impact of confirmation bias awareness on mitigating susceptibility to misinformation
Introduction: In the current digital age, the proliferation of misinformation presents a formidable challenge to a democratic society. False narratives surrounding vaccination efforts pose a significant public health risk. Understanding the role of cognitive biases in susceptibility to misinformation is crucial in addressing this challenge. Confirmation bias, characterized by the tendency to favor information that aligns with pre-existing beliefs…
Development of the passive and active meat-animal dissociation scale (mads)
Many individuals like eating meat but condemn causing harm to animals. Dissociating meat from its animal origins is one way to avoid the cognitive dissonance this ‘meat paradox’ elicits. While the significance of meat-animal dissociation for meat consumption is well-established, a recent literature review suggested that it consists of two distinct tendencies. First, people may differ in the degree to which they passively disassociate meat from it…
The genetic underpinnings of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation explain political attitudes beyond Big Five personality
OBJECTIVE: Political attitudes are predicted by the key ideological variables of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), as well as some of the Big Five personality traits. Past research indicates that personality and ideological traits are correlated for genetic reasons. A question that has yet to be tested concerns whether the genetic variation underlying the ideological traits of RWA and SDO has distinct contr…
How identity fusion predicts extreme pro-group orientations
Predicting misinformation beliefs across four countries
There are differing perspectives on the roles that social-perceptual and individual-difference factors play in explaining susceptibility to misinformation. With quota-representative samples from the U.S. ( n = 492), the U.K. ( n = 600), Poland ( n = 558), and Germany ( n = 490), we ran a comprehensive test of four social-perceptual factors (i.e., social trust, institutional trust, relative deprivation, and perceived area unsafety) and six individ…
Delineating the boundaries between genuine cultural change and cultural appropriation in majority-group acculturation
An emerging literature has begun to explore the acculturation of majority-group members within increasingly diverse societies. Given the inherent power asymmetries and ethnic hierarchies that usually favor majority groups, it becomes critical to examine their acculturation process through the lens of power dynamics. Central to this examination is determining when a majority group’s adoption of cultures from other groups (e.g., ethnocultural minor…
Investigating the forgotten side of acculturation
Beyond singular perspectives
Previous research has established that ethnic minority groups experience specific acculturation expectations from the majority group. However, this research has largely ignored minority-group members’ expectations toward their own group and its heterogeneity. Sampling 327 Haredi Israeli minority-group members, the present study had three main objectives: (1) Identify the acculturation expectations individuals hold toward their minority group; (2)…
The role of temporal analogies in collective movements
Although the importance of temporal perspectives for understanding collective movements has been theoretically emphasised, they are rarely considered in research. Focusing on the mass protests against COVID‐19 policies in Germany, we investigated how protesters make use of temporal references in their protest narratives. Results from 11 multi‐site protest observations and 31 interviews showed that participants (a) drew historical perpetrator and …
Acculturation preferences and perceived (dis)loyalty of Muslims in the U.K
Muslims in the U.K. who maintain their religious culture are often viewed as a suspect community. This pre-registered experimental research examined the mediating role of perceived (dis)loyalty as underlying process and the moderating role of acculturation expectations. A total of 334 non-Muslim White British participants in Study 1 and 810 in Study 2 were asked to indicate their acculturation expectations towards Muslims. They were then randomly…
Are we willing to share what we believe is true? Factors influencing susceptibility to fake news
We conclude a common notion that the spread of fake news can be limited by fact-checking and educating people might not be entirely true, as people will share fake information as long as it reduces the entropy of their mental models of the world. We also find support for the Trojan Horse hypothesis of fake news dissemination
Investigation of gender bias in the mental imagery of faces
People tend to think of the prototypical person as a man more than as a woman, but this bias has primarily been observed in language-based tasks. Here, we investigated whether this bias is also present in the mental imagery of faces. A preregistered cross-cultural reverse-correlation study including participants from six WEIRD and non-WEIRD countries varying in gender equality (i.e., China, Ghana, Norway, Pakistan, Turkey, and the US; N = 645) un…
Support for religious minorities' rights among (non)religious national majority group members
Increasing religious diversity caused by immigration is often perceived as a threat to national majority members' (non)religious worldviews. However, defensive reactions to diversity are not inevitable. Building on the social identity approach and motivated identity construction theory, we argue that (non)religious worldviews that satisfy motivational needs may promote support for religious minorities' rights. We tested this hypothesis in a sampl…
Utilizing AI questionnaire translations in cross-cultural and intercultural research
In this research paper, we investigated the viability of AI-supported translations of survey materials in intercultural and cross-cultural research, comparing the quality of machine translations to traditional human translations. Focusing on the HEXACO personality inventory, we translated the original English inventory using Google Translate and GPT-3.5 into 33 languages for which validated human translations exist. The statistical similarity bet…
How are acculturation orientations associated among majority-group members? The moderating role of ideology and levels of identity
Research in the emerging field of majority-group acculturation has investigated the predictors that explain why some majority-group members adopt whereas others reject the cultures of minority-group members. The present research investigated an issue that has received comparably little attention. Specifically, with a sample of 2205 majority-group members from Germany that was age, gender, and geographically representative, it tested some potentia…
Revisiting the integration hypothesis again
A recent meta-analytical paper (Bierwiaczonek & Kunst, 2021) sparked a controversy by demonstrating that cross-sectional associations between acculturation preferences and adaptation are weak and heterogenous, and approach zero when assessed over time. Some responses criticized the paper by arguing that small but robust effects can make a real-life difference if applied to millions of migrants. In this paper, we present additional analyses to ill…
The “Great Replacement” conspiracy
Increased immigration and demographic changes have not only resulted in political pushback, but also in violent attacks against immigrants. Several recent terrorist attacks committed by White supremacists invoke rhetoric around a deliberate attempt to make Whites extinct and replace them with non-Western immigrants. Yet, while it is widely acknowledged among extremism researchers that this perception of orchestrated extinction or replacement has …
Meat eaters by dissociation
Coping with Islamophobia
A two-way process? A qualitative and quantitative investigation of majority members’ acculturation
The Missing Side of Acculturation
In many countries, individuals who have represented the majority group historically are decreasing in relative size and/or perceiving that they have diminished status and power compared with those self-identifying as immigrants or members of ethnic minority groups. These developments raise several salient and timely issues, including (a) how majority-group members’ cultural orientations change as a consequence of increasing intercultural contact …
Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation
Perceived islamophobia
Living under threat
This research demonstrates a common psychology of outgroup hostility driven by perceived intergroup threat among three groups and seven cultural contexts: non‐Muslim Westerners, Muslims in Western societies, and Muslims in the Middle East. In Study 1, symbolic, but not realistic and terroristic threats, predicted non‐Muslim Norwegians' intentions to join anti‐Islamic movements. In Study 2, symbolic and realistic, but not terroristic threat, predi…
It's on Time That They Assimilate” – Differential acculturation expectations towards first and second generation immigrants
The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion
National and European policies aim to facilitate the integration of Roma people into mainstream society. Yet, Europe’s largest ethnic group continues to be severely discriminated. Although prejudice has been identified to be at the core of this failure, social psychological research on anti-Gypsyism remains scarce. We conducted a study in six countries using student and community samples ( N = 2,089; Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Norway, Italy, Spa…
Too sweet to eat
The vicious circle of religious prejudice
Public discourse often portrays Islam as the main obstacle for Muslim minorities' integration, paying little attention to the contextual factors hindering this process. Here, we focus on islamophobia as one destructive factor that hinders the mutual integration between Muslim minority and Western majority members, affecting both groups. In Study 1, the more islamophobic majority members were, the more they expected Muslims to give up their herita…
Are we facing a “causality crisis” in acculturation research? The need for a methodological (r)evolution
Acculturation is an inherently causal phenomenon that deals with changes and processes initiated by intercultural contact. However, although more than 13,000 scientific articles to date have been published on a topic related to acculturation, only a small fraction uses data that allow for causal inferences. As a result, our field can be seen as facing a “crisis of causality,” where central theories and models that assume causality between constru…
Divided loyalties
Majority-group members often hold negative attitudes toward minority-group members who identify with both the majority and their minority group. Integrating perspectives from social identity theory and acculturation research with a coalitional psychology framework, we show that an underlying mechanism for such bias is the perception that dual identifiers are disloyal to the majority group. In Study 1, majority-group participants in the U.S. quest…
Who adopts the culture of ethnic minority groups? A personality perspective on majority-group members’ acculturation
Acculturation is commonly conceptualized as a two-way process in which all groups involved in intercultural contact change. Yet, very little is known about the acculturation orientations of majority-group members and the factors that differentiate those who adopt aspects of minority groups’ culture from those who reject them. In the present research, we for the first time aimed to answer this question from a personality perspective. A total of 30…
A new route towards more harmonious intergroup relationships in England? Majority members’ proximal-acculturation
The effects of dissociation on willingness to eat meat are moderated by exposure to unprocessed meat
Feminist ≠ Feminine? Feminist Women Are Visually Masculinized Whereas Feminist Men Are Feminized
The effect of disgust-eliciting media portrayals on outgroup dehumanization and support of deportation in a Norwegian sample
Investigating direct and indirect globalization-based acculturation
Cultural globalization affects most people around the world in contemporary, modern societies. The resulting intercultural contact have been examined using the theory of globalization-based acculturation. However, little is known about possible differences and similarities in processes underlying the effects of direct (e.g., through contact with immigrants) and indirect (e.g., engagement with cultural elements through media) forms of new cultural…
Fusion with political leaders predicts willingness to persecute immigrants and political opponents
How ‘should’ the majority group acculturate? Acculturation expectations and their correlates among minority- and majority-group members
Do minority-group members welcome or reject that majority-group members adopt other cultures? Acculturation is commonly defined as a process of mutual accommodation. Yet, the acculturation of majority-group members has only recently received research attention. To date, we do not know the extent to which minority-group members expect majority-group members to adopt the culture of minority groups and/or to maintain their mainstream culture. Knowle…
How do Australian majority-group members acculturate? A person-centred approach
Understanding how majority-group members adapt to cultural diversity is increasingly important in plural societies such as Australia. However, little is known about majority-group members’ acculturation towards immigrants and self-identifying minority-group members in a shared society. We address this with data from two white Australian majority group samples (Study 1, n = 212 undergraduate students and Study 2, n = 300 community sample). Using p…
The way they look
Even when people hold little prejudice themselves, expectations about how members of other groups perceive them may negatively influence interracial relations. In four pre-registered experiments, each using a full intergroup design with Black and White participants, we show that people infer negative meta-attitudes from out-group members whose appearance is phenotypically prototypical, which in turn leads to less favorable orientations toward int…
Prodigal Sons
Religious fundamentalism is associated with Christian–Islamic conflicts globally, but the psychological reasons remain unexplored. Here, we show that fundamentalism is detrimental to interreligious relations because it makes Christians and Muslims alike reject common theological grounds and Abrahamic origins. Specifically, Study 1 demonstrated that such dual Abrahamic categories mediated the negative effects of fundamentalism on real monetary don…
Coping with Islamophobia
Perceived islamophobia
Expanding the Margins of Identity
In an increasingly globalized world, global culture may constitute an alternative cultural resource, especially for members of ethnic minority groups who have often been described as marginalized in acculturation research. In the present study, we investigated the role that global identity may play for the self-concept and the psychological and sociocultural adaptation of ethnic minority members, especially those who score high on marginalization…
It's on Time That They Assimilate” – Differential acculturation expectations towards first and second generation immigrants
Relationship between perceived acculturation expectations and Muslim minority youth's acculturation and adaptation
Prodigal Sons
Religious fundamentalism is associated with Christian–Islamic conflicts globally, but the psychological reasons remain unexplored. Here, we show that fundamentalism is detrimental to interreligious relations because it makes Christians and Muslims alike reject common theological grounds and Abrahamic origins. Specifically, Study 1 demonstrated that such dual Abrahamic categories mediated the negative effects of fundamentalism on real monetary don…
Late Abrahamic reunion? Religious fundamentalism negatively predicts dual Abrahamic group categorization among Muslims and Christians
Although extensive research has documented the effectiveness of common or dual in‐groups on improving intergroup relations, little is known about how individual‐difference variables affect people's willingness to make such re‐categorizations in the first place. Here, we demonstrate that individual differences in religious fundamentalism predict willingness to categorize in terms of the common Abrahamic religious origins of Christianity and Islam …
The effect of disgust-eliciting media portrayals on outgroup dehumanization and support of deportation in a Norwegian sample
The vicious circle of religious prejudice
Public discourse often portrays Islam as the main obstacle for Muslim minorities' integration, paying little attention to the contextual factors hindering this process. Here, we focus on islamophobia as one destructive factor that hinders the mutual integration between Muslim minority and Western majority members, affecting both groups. In Study 1, the more islamophobic majority members were, the more they expected Muslims to give up their herita…
Meat eaters by dissociation
A two-way process? A qualitative and quantitative investigation of majority members’ acculturation
Feminist ≠ Feminine? Feminist Women Are Visually Masculinized Whereas Feminist Men Are Feminized
The effects of dissociation on willingness to eat meat are moderated by exposure to unprocessed meat
Too sweet to eat
Living under threat
This research demonstrates a common psychology of outgroup hostility driven by perceived intergroup threat among three groups and seven cultural contexts: non‐Muslim Westerners, Muslims in Western societies, and Muslims in the Middle East. In Study 1, symbolic, but not realistic and terroristic threats, predicted non‐Muslim Norwegians' intentions to join anti‐Islamic movements. In Study 2, symbolic and realistic, but not terroristic threat, predi…
“You Little Creep”
Physical cues influence social judgments of others. For example, shorter individuals are evaluated less positively than taller individuals. Here, we demonstrate that height also impacts one of the most consequential intergroup judgments—attributions of humanity—and explore whether this effect is modulated by the tendency to value hierarchy maintenance. In Study 1, the shorter participants perceived a range of out-groups to be, the more they dehum…
Can Abraham bring peace? The relationship between acknowledging shared religious roots and intergroup conflict
Although the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rooted in contesting ethno-national narratives, it is often also framed and perceived in religious terms. While all 3 groups who consider the region a holy land, namely Jews, Muslims and Christians, have theological roots in common, the potential of emphasizing such commonalities among more than 2 groups and—most importantly—whether acknowledging such shared Abrahamic lineage generally may b…
Threat, Anti-Western Hostility and Violence among European Muslims
In many Western countries, the public has extensively debated factors potentially leading Muslim minority-group members to support violence by foreign extremist states or to commit violence themselves. Here, one central question has been whether their acculturation orientations may play a role. Combining perspectives from intergroup threat theory and acculturation psychology, the present study investigated whether one reason for why threat percep…
Living under threat
In the article “Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti-Muslim and anti-Western hostility in the age of terrorism” (https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2362) (Obaidi, Kunst, Kteily, Thomsen, & Sidanius, 2018), published in Wiley Online Library on 25 March 2018 and in the European Journal of Social Psychology, 48: 567–584, an error has been identified in the affiliation section. The authors would like to add the missed affiliation for L…
Divided loyalties
Majority-group members often hold negative attitudes toward minority-group members who identify with both the majority and their minority group. Integrating perspectives from social identity theory and acculturation research with a coalitional psychology framework, we show that an underlying mechanism for such bias is the perception that dual identifiers are disloyal to the majority group. In Study 1, majority-group participants in the U.S. quest…
Fusion with political leaders predicts willingness to persecute immigrants and political opponents
Belief in Covid‐19 Conspiracy Theories Reduces Social Distancing over Time
BACKGROUND: Conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19 are widespread and have even been propagated by highly ranked state officials and politicians in the US. Health authorities have cautioned that such theories, although not questioning the existence of the pandemic, may increase the spread of the virus by reducing people's efforts to socially distance. METHODS: We test this proposition empirically using longitudinal survey data collecte…
Common Identity and Humanity
Dissociating meat from its animal origins
The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion
National and European policies aim to facilitate the integration of Roma people into mainstream society. Yet, Europe’s largest ethnic group continues to be severely discriminated. Although prejudice has been identified to be at the core of this failure, social psychological research on anti-Gypsyism remains scarce. We conducted a study in six countries using student and community samples ( N = 2,089; Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Norway, Italy, Spa…
Psychology (57 obras) · Social Psychology (54 obras) · Social Psychology (37 obras) · Sociology (35 obras) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (34 obras) · Political science (33 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (27 obras) · Acculturation (22 obras) · Ethnic group (18 obras) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (18 obras)