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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Threat (Psychology)"”.
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Reactance as a result of repeated threats and an intervening restoration of attitudinal freedom
… experiment investigated the effect of successive threats to the same attitudinal freedom on reactance arousal. Although the effect of repeated or successive threats to freedom was not considered in the original statement of reactance theory, later research suggests there will be special effects. A …
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Language exclusionary behavior and attitudes toward immigrants
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The effects of control threat on women's acceptance of benevolent sexism and traditional gender roles
1 PDF file (vii, 77 pages)
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Attitudes Toward Immigrants as a Function of National Identity Distinctiveness Threat and Imagined Contact
… However, immigrants are often perceived to threaten the host population’s distinctive national group identity, motivating negative reactions including dehumanization, ethnocentrism, and a shift toward extremism, reducing opportunities for positive intergroup interaction. Researchers have …
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The effects of social-exclusion inducing stereotype threat
<p>Stereotype threat occurs when one may feel as if they are confirming or representing a selfcharacteristic or a negative stereotype of one’s group. Social exclusion has been shown to threaten the need to belong. Both stereotype threat and social exclusion have many common links: Each affects an …
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Impact of a Pandemic on Attitudes towards Immigrants
… perceived as posing both realistic and symbolic threats to the host society. During the current global pandemic, these threats are amplified. This research investigated how attitudes towards immigrants were likely to be more negative when the impact of the pandemic was made salient. Based on …
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Losing Status and Entitativity: How Population Shifts Affect Attitudes Toward Immigrants via Social Identity Threats
… attitudes toward immigrants via elevated status threat to the ethnic majority group. Drawing from social identity theory and uncertainty-identity theory, two studies were conducted to examine whether population shift can elicit anti-immigration sentiment via the elevated entitativity threat to …