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The structure of (generalized) prejudice: The relation between contextual factors and different forms of prejudice KU Leuven
Prejudice remains a persistent social problem in Western societies. Critically, prejudices are often not directed toward one single target group but generalize across a variety of groups. People who dislike immigrants or Jews are also more likely to dislike homosexuals and Muslims. To put it in the words of Allport (1954, p. 69): “The fact that scapegoats of different breeds are so often harnessed together shows that it is the totality of ...
Generalized and specific components of prejudice: The decomposition of intergroup context effects KU Leuven
Although different types of prejudice tend to be highly correlated, target-specific and more generalized components can nevertheless be distinguished. Here, we analyze whether indicators of the intergroup context – threat, contact and neighborhood composition – predict the target-specific and/or the generalized components of prejudice. Using data from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 4,629) we build a multilevel model that ...
Generalized and specific components of prejudice: The decomposition of intergroup context effects KU Leuven
Although different types of prejudice tend to be highly correlated, target-specific and more generalized components can nevertheless be distinguished. Here, we analyze whether indicators of the intergroup context – threat, contact and neighborhood composition – predict the target-specific and/or the generalized components of prejudice. Using data from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study (N = 4,629) we build a multilevel model that ...
Comparing the effect of cross-group friendship on generalized trust to its effect on prejudice: The mediating role of threat perceptions and negative affect Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Intergroup relations theory posits that cross-group friendship reduces threat perceptions and negative emotions about outgroups. This has been argued to mitigate the negative effects of ethnic diversity on generalized trust. Yet, direct tests of this friendship-trust relation, especially including perceptions of threat and negative affect as mediators, have remained rare at the individual level. In this article, we employ structural equation ...
The relationship of trait emotional intelligence with right-wing attitudes and subtle racial prejudice Universiteit Gent
Comparing a variable-centered and person-centered approach to the structure of prejudice KU Leuven
Whereas research on generalized prejudice is dominated by variable-centered approaches, which focus on communalities between different types of prejudice, we propose a complementary person-centered approach, looking for subgroups of people characterized by similar patterns of prejudice. To this end, we compare the results of a variable-centered (using confirmatory factor analysis, CFA) and a person-centered (using latent class analysis, LCA) ...
Context, intergroup threats and contact as determinants of prejudice toward immigrants KU Leuven
Prejudice toward immigrants remains widespread in Western multi-ethnic societies. So far, the majority of studies investigated prejudice toward immigrants from either the individual level or the contextual level as viewed from one discipline. In this dissertation, I take an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach to examine how (perceptions of) the social environment contribute to intergroup threat and contact that subsequently have an ...
Changing the ideological roots of prejudice: longitudinal effects of ethnic intergroup contact on social dominance orientation Universiteit Gent
Social dominance orientation (SDO) has been reported to be strongly related to a multitude of intergroup phenomena, but little is known about situational experiences that may influence SDO. Drawing from research on intergroup contact theory, we argue that positive intergroup contact is able to reduce SDO-levels. The results of an intergroup contact intervention study among high school students (Study 1, N = 71) demonstrated that SDO levels were ...
Parent-Child Similarity in Common and Specific Components of Prejudice: The Role of Ideological Attitudes and Political Discussion KU Leuven
Using a representative sample of Belgian adolescents (N=1,530) and both their parents, we investigated the parent-child similarity in prejudice toward different outgroups and ideological attitudes (right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation). Contrary to previous studies, we distinguished between common and specific components of prejudice to test whether the parent-child similarity in one specific type of prejudice was ...