Abstract Immigrants and their descendants make up a growing share of the population in countries across Europe, North America, Oceania. This large‐scale immigration challenges once relatively stable notions ethnic, national (or regional), religious identities. children confront task defining themselves new unfamiliar context. Questions regarding immigrants’ identifications with ethnic groups—but also local, religious, supranational groups—have animated policy debates. special issue brings...

The present study examined whether positive portrayals of feminist men could increase men’s sense solidarity with feminists and, through it, their intentions to engage in collective action support women. A sample 102 mostly White between the ages 18 and 63 was recruited from Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing marketplace. They were exposed a short article either portraying light, negative or describing history feminism without mentioning men. Men who read portrayal expressed more...

Endorsing meritocracy can make low-status group members more accepting of inequality. This study examined whether rejecting is related to increased ethnic identification among Latino immigrants, and identity in turn support for collective action. We hypothesize that these relationships depend upon immigrant generation. A survey was conducted with 184 first- second-generation immigrants New York City. Second-generation Latinos endorsed less than those the first generation, at least part...

Abstract Immigrants and their descendants typically identify with ethnic, national, religious, and/or regional groups, in various combinations varying degrees of compatibility or conflict. Research theorizing on these patterns identification, as represented this issue, suggest guideposts for future research domains policy development. Here, we some the issues that warrant additional consider implications existing dual (or multiple) identification development implementation policies related...

Immigrants to the United States face rejection from other Americans on basis of their ethnic group membership. Among members minority groups who were born in States, is tied higher identification and less positive attitudes toward national majority. Relatively little research has examined this relationship among first-generation immigrants (i.e., people another country but migrated States) or considered political engagement behalf one's as an outcome. In study we ethnic-based rejection,...

Members of advantaged groups can play a role in addressing discrimination and inequality. Sometimes, members are motivated to deny their group-based privilege, however. In two studies ( Ns = 196, 600), we examined how privilege denial affects disadvantaged group members’ (i.e., women’s) evaluations men) who engage collective action support equality. We sampled women attending colleges or universities the United States randomly assigned them read about man attended rally gender equality...

Abstract Dual identities are defined as immigrants' identification with their ethnic ingroup well the national community in country of residence. have been argued to increase protest, because they make immigrants feel entitled advocate for disadvantaged group part a larger community. In study Latino United States, however, we found that dual no longer predict protest when learn other members passed laws or enacted policies would exclude restrict rights, through deportation and detention....

As citizens by birth, U.S.-born Latines are not subject to deportation. However, many have undocumented friends or family members who are. We examined whether concerns about the deportation of shape Latines' feelings anger and fear U.S. immigration policy as well identity conflict, variables associated with collective action for immigrants' rights.

Background Behavioral economic approaches have revealed several characteristics of alcohol demand (e.g., intensity, elasticity, and essential value) in university students; however, these not yet examined among students outside the United States. The current study student samples States France using a hypothetical purchase task (APT) novel APT Choice task, which nonalcoholic beverages were concurrently available at fixed low price. Methods Participants each site (United States, n = 132;...

People are more willing to engage in collective action when they feel anger about disadvantage (van Zomeren, Postmes, & Spears, 2008). However, is often a fleeting emotion, whereas deliberate and sustained. Moreover, people cannot always on demand. We propose that rumination, or repetitive thoughts negative emotions experiences, may constitute mechanism by which sustained, through it the motivation action. In three separate samples (128 students of color, 155 women, 150 sexual...

How we think other people see us has long been believed to influence how ourselves, a phenomenon known as reflected appraisal. Among members of ethnic minority groups and immigrant groups, however, inconsistent patterns have found. This study examined immigrants' views their group themselves are tied the appraisals specific others. We hypothesized that heritage culture White Americans implicated in appraisal process differing degrees. Moreover, immigrants (first-generation) children...

Advantaged group allies have multiple motives for supporting equality, raising questions about their sincerity. We draw upon the covariation model of attributions (Kelley, 1973) to explain how disadvantaged members make whether advantaged “allies” are sincerely motivated empower group. propose an Attribution-Identity Model Sincerity (AIMS) which posits that view as sincere when they support equality in presence inhibitory and absence facilitative causes, exceed expectations group, provide...

On the eve of 2012 U.S. Presidential election, we conducted an initial investigation into determinants people's attitudes toward military's use drone strikes in Pakistan. Drawing on existing research and theory social political psychology, examined effects ideology, framing (national security vs. human costs), value orientations, salience candidate endorsement (Obama Romney) policy. The perceived relevance values universalism to judgments policy mediated relationship between ideology...

Men can make important contributions to gender equality, but a variety of obstacles impede their engagement with feminism. In this paper, we propose Self-Determination (Ryan & Deci, 2000) approach supporting men’s feminist engagement. We argue that men are more likely engage feminism consistently and effectively if they internalize goals incorporate them into sense self, i.e., develop autonomous motivation. argue, further, motivation satisfies basic psychological needs for autonomy,...

Academic Abstract Advantaged group allies have multiple motives for supporting equality, raising questions about their sincerity. We draw upon the covariation model of attributions to explain how disadvantaged members make whether advantaged “allies” are sincerely motivated empower group. propose an Attribution-Identity Model Sincerity (AIMS) which posits that view as sincere when they support equality in presence inhibitory causes and absence facilitative causes, exceed expectations group,...