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Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants (2021)
Journal Article
Gheorghiu, M., Pehrson, S., & Christ, O. (2022). Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61(2), 510-531. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12493

Immigration has been a prominent political issue for decades, but particularly so with rising national populism. To understand current anti-immigration opinion, we turn to the concept of relative deprivation, which, we argue, is fundamentally about e... Read More about Status, relative deprivation, and moral devaluation of immigrants.

Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa. (2017)
Journal Article
Tropp, L. R., Hawi, D. R., O'Brien, T. C., Gheorghiu, M., Zetes, A., & Butz, D. A. (2017). Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 23(3), 239-249. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000236

With surveys of Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, and Whites and Blacks in South Africa, this research examines how both contact quality and exposure to intergroup conflict predict attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors relevant to intergroup... Read More about Intergroup contact and the potential for post-conflict reconciliation: Studies in Northern Ireland and South Africa..

Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups (2012)
Journal Article
Owe, E., Vignoles, V. L., Becker, M., Brown, R., Smith, P. B., Lee, S. W. . S., …Jalal, B. (2012). Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(1), 24-45. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022111430255

Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals. We propose the construct of contextualism,... Read More about Contextualism as an Important Facet of Individualism-Collectivism: Personhood Beliefs Across 37 National Groups.

Beyond the United States and Japan: testing Yamagishi's emancipation theory of trust across 31 nations. (2009)
Journal Article
Gheorghiu, M. A., Vignoles, V. L., & Smith, P. B. (2009). Beyond the United States and Japan: testing Yamagishi's emancipation theory of trust across 31 nations. Social Psychology Quarterly, 72(4), 365-383. https://doi.org/10.1177/019027250907200408

We examined the relationship between Individualism/Collectivism and generalized social trust across 31 European nations participating in the European Social Survey. Using multi-level regression analyses, the current study provides the first empirical... Read More about Beyond the United States and Japan: testing Yamagishi's emancipation theory of trust across 31 nations..