Enhancing or reducing interethnic hierarchies? Teacher diversity approaches and ethnic majority and minority students' e...
status: published
Explaining prejudicial attitudes and bias-motivated aggression in Belgium : a comparison of individual-level theoretical...
Prejudice and bias-motivated aggression (BMA) are pervasive social problems. Scholars have tested numerous competing theoretical models to demonstrate the key predicates of prejudice and BMA, including intergroup contact, dual process (i.e., right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation), perceived injustice, peer socialization, and ...
Definitional boundaries of discrimination: Tools for deciding what constitutes discrimination (and what doesn't)
status: published
'You Have to Integrate to Belong Here!': Acculturation and Exclusion among Turkish and Belgian Descent Students on a Uni...
status: published
Do Parental and Peer Support Protect Adjustment in the Face of Ethnic Discrimination? A Comparison between Refugee Youth...
Applying a risk and protection perspective, this study paid special attention to the protective roles of parental and peer support in the face of perceived ethnic discrimination (PED) at school. Responding to the inconsistent findings of previous research, the survey study provides greater clarity regarding the interactions between PED at school, s...
"What can her body do?" Reducing weight stigma by appreciating another person's body functionality
OBJECTIVE: Weight stigma is prevalent across multiple life domains, and negatively affects both psychological and physical health. Yet, research into weight stigma reduction techniques is limited, and rarely results in reduced antipathy toward higher-weight individuals. The current pre-registered study investigated a novel weight stigma reduction i...
Assessing the effects of a real-life contact intervention on prejudice toward LGBT people
Prejudice against sexual and gender minorities (e.g., LGBT people) is quite prevalent and is harmful. We examined an existing-and often-used-contact intervention in pre-existing groups in an educational setting and assessed its effectiveness in reducing different forms of LGBT negativity. We focused particularly on modern LGBT negativity: a relativ...
Ethnic outgroup aggression : a pilot study on the importance of emotion regulation, nationalism and susceptibility to pe...
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The current pilot study investigated the psychological mechanisms behind ethnic outgroup aggression, a significant outcome of intergroup conflicts. While previous research suggested several impactful predictors of ethnic outgroup aggression, such as intergroup contact and nationalism, no attempt has been made to synthesize all these constructs into...
Attitudes and beliefs of Italian educators and teachers regarding children raised by same-sex parents
Teachers and educators represent meaningful relationships for children, and their attitudes can have a major influence on a child's development. This research examined the role of background characteristics, contact experiences, and sexual prejudice in determining beliefs about children's adjustment in same-sex parent families. The sample consisted...
The social-psychological bases of far-right support in Europe and the United States
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The roles of authoritarianism, social dominance orientation (SDO), and prejudice in the prediction of far-right support were examined in Europe and the United States. A meta-analysis shows remarkably similar, positive, and strong associations of far-right support with these three variables in previous studies conducte...
