Identity and Deprovincialization: Identity Complexity and Inclusiveness Encourage EU-Wide Behavioural Intentions via Reduced Intergroup Concerns and Increased Optimism

Sanatkar, Samineh; Паолини, Стефаниа; Damigella, Daniela; Licciardello, Orazio

doi:10.5334/irsp.151

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“…We treated this as a measure of "prior intergroup musical contact." The remaining musical items were averaged to assess the respondents' overall interest in music listening; this was included as a control measure in all analyses, thus allowing our analysis to differentiate between music seeking behavior that is driven by general musical interest versus intergroup concerns (Sanatkar et al, 2018).…”

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Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music

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Intergroup contact research demonstrates that contact with outgroups (including mediated contact) improves attitudes about those groups. However, people often avoid such contact, including avoiding outgroup media messages. In two studies, we investigated voluntary exposure to outgroup media. Our research builds on intergroup contact theory and the reactive approach model. The latter suggests (counterintuitively) that, sometimes, anxiety can motivate people to engage with the unfamiliar. Both studies measured potential predictors of voluntary contact, provided musical options for respondents, and measured which options people chose as well as their engagement with and enjoyment of those choices. Study 1 provided a simple choice between two musical options (ingroup versus outgroup); Study 2 used a more extensive array of ingroup and outgroup options, including ingroup-outgroup collaborative music. Findings suggest a limited role of personality traits in determining seeking outgroup media, but a more powerful role for diversity-related attitudes and past exposure to outgroup media. Some evidence supported reactive approach models (e.g., selfexpansion motives drove time spent listening to outgroup media in Study 1, but only for people who reported high levels of intergroup anxiety).

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“…The focus on acknowledging and promoting new mixed and plural forms of identity can also be beneficial because identity complexity and flexibility are associated with reduced prejudice and increased social acceptance (e.g., Miller et al, 2009;Roccas & Brewer, 2002;Sanatkar et al, 2018;Schmid et al, 2009;Verkuyten & Martinovic, 2012). Indeed, psychological research reveals that low social identity complexity is associated with prejudice toward outgroups by increasing "us-them" boundaries in the absence of cross-cutting categories (e.g., Crisp & Hewstone, 2006).…”

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Interculturalism as a strategy to manage diversity: Moving psychological research beyond colorblindness and multiculturalism

Yogeeswaran

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2021

Social & Personality Psych

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The 21st century has highlighted major dilemmas on how to best manage diversity in our increasingly plural societies. Various strategies for managing diversity have been promoted to address this challenge including assimilation, colorblindness, and multiculturalism. However, empirical evidence has revealed that each poses weaknesses for intergroup relations. As a result, policy-makers and political theorists have promoted interculturalism as an alternate strategy that addresses new and emerging realities revolving around superdiversity, cultural fusions, and mixed forms of identity.In the current paper, we explore interculturalism as a pro-diversity ideology that takes a more dynamic view of cultural identity where individuals belonging to different social groups are supported to interact and influence each other leading to new and complex self-understandings. We consider the meaning and conceptualization of interculturalism, its psychological correlates, its implications for intergroup relations, and how minority group members perceive interculturalism. Given that empirical research on interculturalism is in its infancy, we further consider gaps in our understanding of the topic and suggest avenues for future research.

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“…A deprovincial view implies a widening of one’s horizon by acknowledging and recognizing the value of other cultures, and thereby putting one’s own taken‐for‐granted cultural standards into perspective. Although deprovincialization does not have to imply emotional distancing from the in‐group, some studies have provided “at best a crude test” (Pettigrew, 2009, p. 59) of the deprovincialization process by inferring its presence from (reverse‐scored) in‐group identification or higher social identity complexity (Brewer, 2008; Sanatkar, Paolini, Damigella, & Licciardello, 2018; Schmid, Hewstone, & Tausch, 2014). Yet, low in‐group identification and high identity complexity can have different reasons and meanings, and do not necessarily imply a widening of social perceptions and in‐group reappraisal.…”

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Supporting immigrant cultural rights: The roles of deprovincialization and identity continuity

Velthuis

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Smeekes

2020

J Applied Social Pyschol

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This research examines the role of deprovincialization, conceptualized in terms of a nuanced perspective on one's in-group culture, for majority members' support for immigrants' cultural practices and expressive rights. In three studies using data from samples drawn from nationally representative panels in the Netherlands (additionally analyzed in an internal meta-analysis of N = 1,791), it was found that deprovincialization is a unique and robust predictor of support for immigrant rights, above and beyond prejudicial feelings, political orientation, level of education, gender, age, and religious affiliation. Furthermore, deprovincialization was found to be independent of national identification, which in previous research has been used as a proxy for deprovincialization. Additionally and in trying to conceptually replicate the pattern of findings (Studies 2 and 3), two different measures of perceived concern about the continuity of the in-group culture and identity were found to weaken the deprovincialization-support association. The findings go beyond existing research by focusing on the cultural openness understanding of deprovincialization and demonstrating the robust importance of how majority members understand their in-group for their support of immigrants' practices and rights. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Identity and Deprovincialization: Identity Complexity and Inclusiveness Encourage EU-Wide Behavioural Intentions via Reduced Intergroup Concerns and Increased Optimism

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music

Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music

Interculturalism as a strategy to manage diversity: Moving psychological research beyond colorblindness and multiculturalism

Supporting immigrant cultural rights: The roles of deprovincialization and identity continuity

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