Allport (1954) recognized that attachment to one’s ingroups does not necessarily require hostility toward outgroups. Yet the prevailing approach to the study of ethnocentrism, ingroup bias, and prejudice presumes that ingroup love and outgroup hate are reciprocally related. Findings from both cross-cultural research and laboratory experiments support the alternative view that ingroup identifica...

This qualitative study, utilizing the dimensional analysis approach, was conducted to generate a substantive theory about the description and meaning of functional health from the perspectives of older Anglo and Latino women. Through focus group interviews with older Anglo and Latino women and data analysis, the investigators learned that the women's perceptions of functional health were vastly...

Threat intensifies ideological investment (e.g., ethnocentrism, religiosity) as well as a diverse and orthogonally related set of responses, such as aesthetic preferences or tendencies to seek physical proximity with others. An emerging consensus unifies these diverse threat-responses as superficially varied expressions of a single underlying process designed to reduce anxiety. In contrast, evo...

This study aims to determine the effect of ethnocentrism and brand image on purchasing decisions with customer satisfaction as an intervening variable. Design / methodology approach: research is a type explanatory technique used in this path analysis using SPSS 25 software. The primary data are questionnaires interviews 100 respondents incidental techniques. Findings: results concluded that inf...

A long-standing debate in political economy is whether voters are driven primarily by economic self-interest or by less pecuniary motives such as ethnocentrism. Using newly available data, we reexamine one of the largest partisan shifts in a modern democracy: Southern whites’ exodus from the Democratic Party, concentrated in the 1960s. Combining high-frequency survey data and textual newspaper ...

Psychological research on beliefs, values, worldview, and ideology has been limited by inadequate structural models to organize the plethora of constructs. The present studies investigate the potential of a dimensional model based on lexical, dictionary-represented -ism concepts to form an organizing structural model. Four isms factors found previously in college samples are shown to replicate ...