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Damned if she does: The subordinate male target hypothesis and discrimination of social dominant female minority members
This study reevaluates the SMTH, originally focused on objective discrimination, by applying it to self-reported active harm as a theoretically derived measure of racist discrimination and by exploring interindividual differences in female ethnic minority members' discriminatory experiences. We proposed that social dominance orientation (SDO) among female ethnic minorities would influence SMTH predictions. We tested this using multiple linear regression analyses among a sample of New Zealand Europeans as the majority in New Zealand and non-Europeans as the minority. As hypothesized, male non-Europeans reported disproportio...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - December 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sarah Buhl Frank Asbrock Chris G Sibley Carla Houkamau Source Type: research

The costs of lying: Consequences of telling lies on liar's self-esteem and affect
This article examines the psychological consequences for the liars themselves, as they are participating in what is generally perceived as immoral behaviour. More specifically, this article focuses on the effects of lying on the liar's self-esteem and affect. We tested if lying, in comparison to telling the truth, lowers people's self-esteem and increases negative experienced affect. In total, three cross sectional and one longitudinal studies were conducted (N = 783). Results showed that lying decreased people's self-esteem and increased negative affect, regardless of the type of lie (self-centred vs. other-oriented). Fur...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - December 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sanne Preuter Bastian Jaeger Mari ëlle Stel Source Type: research

Toleration, discrimination, or acceptance? How majorities interpret and legitimize minority toleration depends on outgroup threat
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Dec 30. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12715. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe notion of tolerance is widely embraced in plural contexts, but little is known about how majority members interpret the toleration of minorities. With four studies, we investigated majority group members' interpretations of a minority toleration situation (compared to full acceptance and discrimination situations) as a function of outgroup threat. Study 1 (N = 214) showed that higher perception of threat from Syrian refugees was associated with Turkish natives' stronger likelihood of interpreting a refugee toleration situation as 'acc...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - December 30, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Berfin Acar Sabahat Cigdem Bagci Maykel Verkuyten Source Type: research

Red-pilled mama bears and enlightened power goddesses: Discursive constructions of feminine identities in a conspiracy theory space
Br J Soc Psychol. 2023 Dec 28. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12717. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTPrevious research into the gendered social identity work involved in conspiracy theories (CTs) has largely focused on expressions of masculinity. The present study investigates the employment and mobilization of feminine identities in online Covid-19 conspiracy theory seminars through a critical discursive psychological perspective. The analysis finds three interpretative repertoires for representing the pandemic: the totalitarianism repertoire, the corrupt medical profession repertoire and the awakening repertoire. The most prominent fem...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - December 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ira Frejborg Katarina Pettersson Source Type: research

White Americans' blame attributions and empathy towards Black victims of police violence: How pejorative stereotypes 'engulf the field'
We examined the dynamics of minority-directed police violence by considering how our White participants' empathy for Black victims may be influenced by critical intragroup differences related to racial stereotyping. Although the role of stereotyping in reactions to Black Americans accused of crime is well-established, we explore the influence of pejorative Black stereotypes on reactions to Black victims of police violence. Specifically, we investigated the roles of individual differences in the endorsement of the Black criminal stereotype among White observers and manipulated the crime-unrelated stereotypicality (i.e. ster...
Source: The British Journal of Social Psychology - December 22, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James Johnson Len Lecci John F Dovidio Source Type: research