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Individual, group, and temporal perspectives on the link between wealth and rea...
Celikkol, Göksu; Renvik, Tuuli Anna; Sortheix, Florencia M.; Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga; Jetten, Jolanda; Ariyanto, Amarina; Autin, Frédérique; Ayub, NadiaIn this 28-country study (N = 6112), we assessed how subjective perceptions and objective indicators of wealth were associated with majority group members’ perceptions of realistic threat related to immigration. Subjective wealth was assessed by individuals’ perceptions of their personal wealth (current/anticipated) and of their coun- try ́s wealth, whereas objective country-level wealth was assessed by GDP and...
Materialist and post-materialist concerns and the wish for a strong leader in 2...
Lima, Marcus E. O.; de França, Dalila X.; Jetten, Jolanda; Pereira, Cícero R.; Wohl, Michael J. A.; Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga; Hong, Ying-yiThere is evidence that democracies are under threat around the world while the quest for strong leaders is increasing. Although the causes of these developments are complex and multifaceted, here we focus on one factor: the extent to which citizens express materialist and post-materialist concerns. We explore whether objective higher levels of democracy are differentially associated with materialist and post-ma...
“Our Country Needs a Strong Leader Right Now”: Economic Inequality Enhances the...
Sprong, Stefanie; Jetten, Jolanda; Wang, Zhechen; Peters, Kim; Mols, Frank; Verkuyten, Maykel; Bastian, Brock; Ariyanto, Amarina; Autin, FrédériqueSocietal inequality has been found to harm the mental and physical health of its members and undermine overall social cohesion. Here, we tested the hypothesis that economic inequality is associated with a wish for a strong leader in a study involving 28 countries from five continents (Study 1, N = 6,112), a study involving an Australian community sample (Study 2, N = 515), and two experiments (Study 3a, N = 96;...
Revisiting the measurement of anomie
Teymoori, Ali; Jetten, Jolanda; Bastian, Brock; Ariyanto, Amarina; Autin, Frédérique; Ayub, Nadia; Badea, Constantina; Besta, Tomasz; Butera, FabrizioSociologists coined the term “anomie” to describe societies that are characterized by disintegration and deregulation. Extending beyond conceptualizations of anomie that conflate the measurements of anomie as ‘a state of society’ and as a ‘state of mind’, we disentangle these conceptualizations and develop an analysis and measure of this phenomenon focusing on anomie as a perception of the ‘state of society’. W...
Influencing People’s (Negative) Attitudes Towards Active Minorities: The Case o...
Butera, Fabrizio; Vernet, Jean-Pierre; Vala, JorgeIn a seminal book published more than 30 years ago, Mugny and Papastamou (1982) argued that the relationship between majorities and rninorities is one of antagonism: minorities create social conflict to promote their ideas while majorities exert their dominance by opposing this change and maintaining a self-serving status quo. To date, however, the bulk of the empirical work that has studied this antagonisrn ha...
Revisiting the Measurement of Anomie
Teymoori, Ali; Jetten, Jolanda; Bastian, Brock; Ariyanto, Amarina; Autin, Frédérique; Ayub, Nadia; Badea, Constantina; Besta, Tomasz; Butera, FabrizioSociologists coined the term "anomie" to describe societies that are characterized by disintegration and deregulation. Extending beyond conceptualizations of anomie that conflate the measurements of anomie as 'a state of society' and as a 'state of mind', we disentangle these conceptualizations and develop an analysis and measure of this phenomenon focusing on anomie as a perception of the 'state of society'. W...
Can men promote feminist movements? Outgroup influence sources reduce attitude ...
Vernet, Jean Pierre; Vala, Jorge; Butera, FabrizioThis research investigates the possibility for men to promote feminist movements. In two experiments, we used the social influence technique of reassociation, known to reduce the rejection of feminists by blaming the target for forgetting that feminists have promoted women’s rights. An influence source, either same-gender (lower threat) or different-gender (higher threat), confronted participants with the reass...