Increased immigration and demographic changes have not only resulted in political pushback, but also violent attacks against immigrants. Several recent terrorist committed by White supremacists invoke rhetoric around a deliberate attempt to make Whites extinct replace them with non-Western Yet, while it is widely acknowledged among extremism researchers that this perception of orchestrated extinction or replacement has tremendous potential lead extremism, its consequences yet been directly...

Humans are a coalitional, parochial species. Yet, extreme actions of solidarity sometimes taken for distant or unrelated groups. What motivates people to become solidary with groups which they do not belong originally? Here, we demonstrate that such can occur when the perceived treatment an out-group clashes one's political beliefs (e.g., Leftists, oppressive occupation out-group) and it is driven by fusion (or feeling oneness) others whom one does share any common social category as...

Creating a sense of interpersonal similarity attitudes and values is associated with increased attraction liking. Applying these findings in an intergroup setting, though, has yielded mixed support. Theorizing from social identity perspective suggests that highlighting may lead to antipathy the extent it perceived as threat one’s unique identity. To circumvent this process, we examine influence emotional similarity, rather than attitudinal or value expectation short-term nature emotions...

This article provides an examination of the structure Islamophobia across cultures. Our novel measure—the Tripartite Scale (TIS)—embeds three theoretically and statistically grounded subcomponents Islamophobia: anti-Muslim prejudice, anti-Islamic sentiment, conspiracy beliefs. Across six samples (i.e., India, Poland, Germany, France, United States), preregistered analyses corroborated that these are distinct. Measurement invariance indicated full scalar invariance, suggesting tripartite...

Information about the degree of one's genetic overlap with ethnic outgroups has been emphasized in genocides, is frequently learned through media reporting, and increasingly being accessed via personal testing services. However, consequence learning whether your own group either genetically related to or distinct from a disliked remains unknown. Across four experiments, using diverse samples, measures contexts, we demonstrate that altering perceptions between groups conflict--in this case...

Ostracism is pervasive across a wide range of cultures. However, little currently known about how it may be experienced emotionally In the current work, we drew on prior cross-cultural evidence and predicted that Westerners would construe social rejection as unfair unjustifiable (an appraisal consistent with independent self-construal linked to emotion anger) while Easterners same event not only but also situationally constrained and, thus, “inevitable” interdependent sadness). As predicted,...

Increased immigration and demographic changes have not only resulted in political pushback, but also violent attacks against immigrants. Several recent terrorist committed by White supremacists invoke rhetoric around a deliberate attempt to make Whites extinct replace them with non-Western Yet, while it is widely acknowledged among extremism researchers that this perception of orchestrated extinction or replacement has tremendous potential lead extremism, its consequences yet been directly...

This article provides an examination of the structure Islamophobia across cultures. Our novel measure – Tripartite Scale (TIS) embeds three theoretically and statistically grounded subcomponents Islamophobia: anti-Muslim prejudice, anti-Islamic sentiment, conspiracy beliefs. Across six samples (i.e., India, Poland, Germany, France, USA), preregistered analyses corroborated that these are distinct. Measurement invariance indicated full scalar invariance, suggesting tripartite understanding is...

Although the protracted Israeli-Palestinian conflict is rooted in contesting ethno-national narratives, it often also framed and perceived religious terms.While all three groups who consider region a holy land, namely Jews, Muslims Christians, have theological roots common, potential of emphasizing such commonalities among more than two -most importantly -whether acknowledging shared Abrahamic lineage generally may be an asset for actual peacemaking remains unknown.Focusing on conflict, we...

Objectives: Individuals who support others reap mental health benefits from this act. Recent studies have identified individual differences in other-oriented processes that shift the most giving. Yet existing examined people individualistic societies (e.g., United States), and whether these findings extend to individuals collectivistic China) remain unknown. Moreover, little is known about pathways through which giving may lead higher life satisfaction. With a sample of Chinese international...

Research and theorizing suggest two competing—yet untested—hypotheses for how European Americans’ Asians’ feeling of being “in control” might differ when excluded by a close other (e.g., good friend). Drawing on different national contexts (i.e., United States, Japan), cultural groups Japanese, Asian/Asian Americans, Americans), exclusion paradigms relived, in vivo), four separate experiments ( N = 2,662) examined feelings control close- or distant-other. A meta-analysis across these...

Past research finds contradictory evidence suggesting that religion both reduces and increases violent conflict. We argue morality is an important hub mechanism can help us understand this disputed relationship. Moreover, to reconcile this, as well the factors underlying religion's impact on increased violence (i.e., belief versus practice), we draw Virtuous Violence Theory newly synthesize it with moral cognition social identity. suggest combined effect of identity may substantially...

Abstract Choice can produce a negatively arousing cognitive conflict (called dissonance), which is thought to motivate the chooser spread their preferences for relevant options Spreading of Alternatives, or SA). The current work aimed determine relationship between HPA‐axis activity and both choice‐induced dissonance its reduction (i.e. SA) among individuals with varying cultural backgrounds. European–Americans Asians made choice two equally attractive CDs either in presence cue indicative...

The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) is a widely used measure of emotion dysregulation. However, limited research has examined its factor structure and measurement invariance cross-national samples. present study tested competing models the DERS university student samples from United States ( n = 324) Taiwan 399). Results indicated that bifactor model with Awareness subscale items removed demonstrated best fit. results model-based indices provided evidence for general...

While it is often assumed that Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) ancestry results illuminate one's true racial or ethnic lineage, the consequence of this inference remains largely unknown. This leaves two conflictual hypotheses untested: Do DNA tests increase tolerance or, alternatively, intolerance? Two multiwave experiments aimed to test these using either real bogus in combination with random assignment and a tightly controlled repeated-measurements experimental design. Bayesian inferential...