Bouzas Bermudez, Eugenia Maria (2022) The Effect of Value Dissimilarity on Intergroup Attitudes Towards Muslims in Europe and Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
As social beings, a big part of a person’s identity is defined by their social environment or their community. People belong to societal groups, conformed by individuals who have one or more characteristics in common, whether physical, ideological or status, the list is endless (Tajfel & Turner, 1979). It is easy to think that two different groups who share similar characteristics would have positive attitudes towards the other. However, this is more complicated than it seems. In the current paper, we considered values as a common or differentiating characteristic between the ingroup and outgroup. We conducted two, two by two studies with continuous moderators to better understand attitudes of majorities towards a representative minority in their home country: white Europeans’ attitudes towards Muslims, and white Americans’ attitudes towards Mexican immigrants. We expected that, when participants were faced with information that stated the minority group had a similar set of values to them, feelings of threat would be reduced. Results were mixed. Overall, white males who endorse conservative values feel more threatened by minority individuals who endorse the same. As for females, it seems to be the opposite. The effect overall was stronger when we simply stated the minority’s values in our manipulation, rather than explicitly stating whether their values were different or similar. Individuals who feel more identified with their own country as a group felt more threatened by their minorities overall, regardless of value endorsement.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Koc, Y. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Applied Social Psychology (ASP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2022 13:48 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2022 13:48 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/472 |
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