Purpose Prior tourism literature neglected the negative motivational or attitudinal elements influencing individuals’ travel destination decisions. This study aims to examine relationships between animosity, ethnocentrism, attitude, subjective norm (SN), perceived behavioural control (PBC), overall image (DOI) and visit intention (DVI). Design/methodology/approach A quantitative approach was us...

Ethnocentrism is a nearly universal syndrome of attitudes and behaviors, typically including in-group favoritism. Empirical evidence suggests that a predisposition to favor in-groups can be easily triggered by even arbitrary group distinctions and that preferential cooperation within groups occurs even when it is individually costly. The authors study the emergence and robustness of ethnocentri...

Humans often alter their behavior depending on the opponent’s group membership, with positive (e.g., support of same-group members) or negative (e.g., stereotyping, oppression, genocide) consequences. An influential model developed by Hammond and Axelrod highlighted the emergence of macro-level “ethnocentric cooperation” from the aggregation of micro-level interactions based on arbitrary tags s...

The goal of this project was to investigate whether consumer ethnocentrism is purely conscious mechanism based on ideology, as suggested by Shimp and Sharma (1987), or rather is an automatic, unconscious process. The aim of the project was an introduction of the Implicit Consumer Ethnocentrism (ICE) concept, measured by the Implicit Association Test (IAT). The goal of the four studies conducted...

This case study aimed to interpret the underlying historical and cultural aspects of the provision of care at an indigenous healthcare service facility. This is an interpretive, case study-type research with qualitative approach, which was conducted in 2012 at the Indigenous Health Support Center (CASAI) of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Data were collected by means systematic observa...

Introduction Although ethnocentrism is one of the fundamental concepts in social sciences, its study has been impeded by a diversity conceptualizations and measures. In recent years, growing number political scientists psychologists have undertaken in-depth research into ethnocentrism. addition, researchers recently proposed comprehensive reconceptualization developed new Ethnocentrism scale. T...

Arab women bear the struggle of their local tradition in countries and Westerns when they live between them. They are victims gender discrimination racism. Ethnocentrism is inclination people who consider customs, civilizations, culture, skin, colour superior, demanding others to follow imitate This paper examined influence ethnocentrism on Arabian Western by analysing Fadia Faqir’s The Cry Dov...

Brand communication through advertising plays an important role in developing strong brands in emerging markets, especially in India. This chapter investigates how ethnocentrism moderates the effects of advertising adaptation levels (globalization, glocalization, and localization) on Indian consumers’ ad evaluation and self-brand congruity. It uses self-brand congruity to explain the psychologi...