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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Out groups"”.
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Justice Across Group Boundaries: Extending Empathy-Motivated Helping to Out-Groups
… social-psychological research to hypothesize about relationships between the emotion of empathy and an individual's effort to extend helping behaviors to out-groups. The literatures on social justice, prosocial behavior, and group stereotypes are reviewed. An experimental study manipulated …
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"Now Imagine You're One of Them": Using Serious Games to Induce Identification with Out-Groups
… utility of identification in the reduction of out-group derogation. Specifically, this research examined the extent to which individuals can be persuaded to identify with members of a perceived out-group, particularly through the use of online games. <em>Spent</em> is an online, point-and-click …
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TV Casualties: The Negative Impact Of Political Messages In Non-News Programs
… television can have in shaping the views and outlooks of viewers. Studies have examined how it is that overtly political broadcasting, such as political commercials or ideological cable news channels, can impact viewers. However, precious little scholarship in the field of political science …
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THE STRATEGIC USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY THE ISLAMIC STATE: EXPLORING THE CONTENT AND TECHNOLOGY OF EXTREMISM
… to deliver costly signals that advanced its outbidding, intimidation, and polarization strategies. This thesis explored the nature of the content produced by IS from 2013 to 2018 and explained its primary purposes. Specifically, IS exploited social media platforms to intimidate internal …
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Disinformation, Exclusion, and its Politics: Canadian Right-Wing Extremist Community within a Digital Landscape
… and Europe. Scholarly literature on Canadian groups and their beliefs has been sparse, with few studies mapping the extent of their activities. Right-wing extremism has captured journalistic attention in recent years as lone-wolf right-wing extremists radicalized on the Internet take up arms …
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Recruiting for the Cause(s): Extremist Propaganda and Radicalization Discourse
… rooted in violence; however, existing research about this remains hyper-focused on Islamic extremism, leaving many other groups and ideologies underexplored. Therefore, I ask to what extent does propaganda from non-Islamist extremist groups follow similar discursive patterns and convey similar …
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Managing Diversity in the Modern European Workplace
… like this often leads to formation of in-groups and out-groups which frequently lead to issues and consequently loss of performance. Nonetheless, it is clear that diverse companies perform better because individuals from various different backgrounds offer new perspectives leading to an …
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Legitimating past actions through strategic manoeuvring : a framework for integrating the discourse-historical approach and pragma-dialectics
… model is to investigate the construction of in/out-groups through carrying out argumentative analysis. To this end, four speeches delivered by Nasrallah at moments of heightened controversy are analysed based on the proposed model and the procedural steps for implementation. The findings are …
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Communication and Community at East Wind
… focuses on East Wind intentional community in southern Missouri. Framed by concepts from Social Identity Theory, this study uses participant observation, field interviewing, and document analysis to examine communication behaviors used in the community. It is argued that the communicative …
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Bithoracochaeta Stein, 1911 (Diptera, Muscidae): revisão das espécies e análise cladística
… the program Hennig86 based on 17 caracters and 3 out-groups. Based on the cladogram, the phylogenetic relationships among the species of this genus are shown.
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Blood and Fire: The Inquisition of Mary Tudor, 1555-1558
… Bonner. This central heresy court quickly sent out groups of heresy commissioners throughout Southeastern England to enforce religious orthodoxy. The commissioning of these heresy judges, also served a dual function of defeating the regimes most potent enemies and maintaining social cohesion. …
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Prejudice Toward Atheists in the United States as Related to Perceived Prevalence
… Management Theory as a cause for conflict among out-groups and explores its effects on cultural worldviews in the area of prejudice toward atheists. This includes examining how the perception of an increasing prevalence of atheists contributes to greater prejudice, such that those receiving …
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American Nationalism in the Early Twenty-first Century: A Discursive Analysis of the Politics of Immigration and National Security
… invoked the issue of national security to single out groups of immigrants as threats to U.S. national security, and what conditions exists so that he is able to do so in a way that enlists the support of a sizeable portion of the American public? First, this thesis works to put into context what …
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A Psychological and Empirical Investigation of the Online Echo Chamber Phenomenon
… mutual, shared attitudes - can lead to negative outcomes such as increased societal polarization between groups holding opposing beliefs. This thesis aimed to examine this assumption from a psychological perspective and substantiate it empirically. First, based on existing research and …
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Phylogenetic Analysis of the Australian Genus <em>Pseudophryne</em> (Myobatrachidae) using Morphological Characters.
… and <em>Taudactylus</em> as defined out-groups. Characters describing musculature are not sufficient to resolve the relationships, but do provide support when used in combination with osteological and external characteristics. When all data are considered, parsimony and maximum …
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A sociological study of Pakistanis in a Northern town in England. Sponsorship and patronage in the formation of social networks and the role of ethnicity in the community.
… unity, especially when threatened by hostile "out-groups". I The analysis strongly suggests that the whole complex of ethnic institutions manifests the Pakistani community's wish to express and, at the same time, perpetuate their traditional values, beliefs and culture, although this varies to …
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A literary exploration of ethnocentric segregation and discrimination in Bessie Head's Maru and Gasebalwe Seretse's The Pursuit of Xhai
… segregation and discrimination amongst ethnic groups as presented in the selected novels. The study was primarily a qualitative desktop research whereby two novels were purposefully selected and analysed. This analysis was informed by the integrated or intergroup threat theory. Integrated or …
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Using Affirmation Theory to Further Understand the Distinction between the Individual Self and the Collective Self
… increase positive attitudes towards certain out-groups for low-identifying group members. Also, unlike affirming the self, affirming the group did not protect participants’ self-esteem from either an individual-level threat or a collective-level threat, providing further support for the …
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Essays on Ethnic Party Competition and Public Goods Provision in South Asia
… voters who trust their own co-ethnics more than out-groups. Nominating candidates with conspicuous ethnic heuristics is an efficient strategy for political parties to signal low information voters in their targeted voting bases. In the second part of the thesis, I lay down the conditions and …
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A study of the perceptions of race and experience of prejudice in Grade Four learners at a Cape Town primary school
… design and made use of a number of focus groups to gather data. These groups were run with Grade Four learners in the primary school, and explored their understanding of race, as well as their views of people from the different races that they identified. They were also asked about their …
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