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Balance Theory Strikes Again!
"exposure to sexually conservative ethnic out-groups can provoke an instrumental increase in LGBT+ inclusion, particularly among those hostile toward immigration."
@politicalscience @socialpsych #research #immigration #lgbtq #newpaper #psychology
News stories that explain the goals & background of a protest and that humanize a person whose death sparked a protest caused audiences to understand the protest and social movement better
On perceived credibility measures, Republican backlash
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate serve as substitutes for one another in US far right groups.
In these groups, hate remains high, but the target shifts in both hateful rhetoric and hate crimes.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-023-09892-9
The 2016 presidential campaign saw high levels of anti-Muslim online and offline hate. But, by the August 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally, anti-Muslim discourse and hate crimes had partly receded, despite the group remaining politically salient and despite a sharp increase in White ‘nationalist’ activity targeting another religious minority, Jews. Was this by chance? Because we might expect White nationalist activity to increase hate against all groups, the counter-intuitive decline in anti-Muslim hate could have been coincidental. We argue instead that those shifts in animus toward Muslims and Jews should be considered in tandem, and that these over-time patterns of hate reflected different manifestations of elevated and constant religious ethnocentrism, especially among far-right extremists. Using data on fringe and mainstream social media sites and hate crime databases, we present two core sets of findings. First, increased anti-Jewish speech was partly driven by the same far-right communities and extremists who previously promoted anti-Muslim speech. Moreover, combined anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish rhetoric in fringe far-right social media over this period was sustained at a high and largely constant level, seeing shifts primarily in the targets of hate speech. Second, similar patterns manifest offline: hate crimes were more strongly associated with which group was targeted by hate speech, but not the overall prevalence of hate speech. Together, this study demonstrates a robust link between the dislike toward Muslims and dislike toward Jews, and how fringe groups organize the dissemination of hate.
Political independents are more likely to vote *against* a candidate/party than *for* a candidate/party, agreed more with negatively-framed political appeals...and this also happens on non-political topics! 🇺🇸
#political #science #psychology #research #newpaper #independence
Individual relative deprivation tended to go down across the lifespan, but group relative deprivation tended to go up from young-to-middle adulthood before declining across late adulthood 🇳🇿
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01461672231195332
Do diversity trainings work?
This chapter argues that's the wrong question. Diversity training are efforts to teach. Like all teaching, we need to consider the trainings content, goals, practices & trainee needs.
Then, we can design effective trainings
This book introduces a comprehensive and integrative collection of psychological intergroup interventions. These evidence-based interventions are scientifically established and tested in several real-world contexts of intergroup animosities and tensions, from prejudice and inequality reduction to peace promotion. Intergroup hostility, violence, and discrimination have become more and more prevalent in recent decades. To address this challenge, recently, social scientists have shown an increasing shift from a descriptive to a more interventionist science, developing evidence-based interventions to improve intergroup relations. For the first time, this book includes research on intergroup interventions and their applications to the field, from a global collection of leading voices in the discipline. It also includes a conceptualization of intergroup interventions, a typology of different types of interventions, as well as a guideline for effective development of intergroup interventions. Each chapter focuses on one psychological intergroup intervention, further reviewing a sample of relevant platforms such as education, entertainment, and VR, upon which psychological intergroup interventions can be implemented. With each chapter featuring both intervention research and practical advice for practitioners, this is the ideal companion for researchers and professionals in social psychology, sociology, politics, peace studies and conflict resolution. It will also be of interest to practitioners looking for practical advice to create an impact in the real-world.
I don't know anything about working at the University of Maryland, but they are hiring in Social Psych and, in a rare move, explicitly say they are interested in political psychologists
The Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Social Psychology. We seek to hire an outstanding social psychologist whose work would meaningfully expand the expertise within the Social, Decision, and Organizational Sciences area and the Psychology Department more broadly, address contemporary social problems, and contribute to our emerging interdisciplinary focus on resilience, broadly defined as adaptation to challenging circumstances. We are particularly interested in applicants who take a social psychological perspective to study domestic terrorism, hate crimes, gun violence, political psychology, political polarization, environmental behavior, or responses to climate change, although applicants who study other social issues will also be considered. We seek applicants with a strong research program in social psychology, a commitment to excellent mentoring and teaching, and the potential to attract extramural grant funding. This position is part of a larger University- and College-wide effort to address grand challenges of our time and build strength in the broad areas of societal resilience. We anticipate the proposed hire will connect with the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences’ Resilience Hub (https://bsos.umd.edu/academics-research/bsos-faculty-forefront), a collaborative and interdisciplinary network of UMD scholars whose research interests focus on the ability of persons or places to prevent or recover from adverse stimuli.Faculty members may have the opportunity to collaborate within Psychology and with scholars in other units and groups at UMD, including the Department of Government and Politics, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Department of African American Studies, Department of Sociology, School of Public Health, Sociology, Smith School of Business, Social Data Science Center, and the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. In addition, collaboration opportunities abound within the greater DC area on topics of violence, political psychology, and environmental behavior. Located just seven miles from the heart of the nation’s capital, the University of Maryland is the flagship campus of the state’s higher education system and a top-ranked public research institution. It is located in the Washington DC-Baltimore region, with a wealth of cultural attractions and access to federal funding agencies and professional associations. Salaries are competitive.
People share true or false news anticipating positive reactions from like-minded audiences and refrain from sharing to avoid upsetting politically dissimilar audiences
#newpaper #fakenews #psychology #polisci #politics @socialpsych @politicalscience
Inconsistent and very weak associations (at best) between childhood personality and general conservatism, social conservatism, and economic conservative.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.12874#
@socialpsych @politicalscience #newpaper #personality #politics #research #psychology
