Although prejudice-reduction policies and interventions abound, is it possible that some of them result in the precise opposite of their intended effect--an increase in prejudice? We examined this question by exploring the impact of motivation-based prejudice-reduction interventions and assessing whether certain popular practices might in fact increase prejudice. In two experiments, participant...

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multibillion-dollar partnered project is considered as game-changer, it combines the strategic interests of China and Pakistan that cannot be compromised. The mega-construction has recently experienced xenophobic incidents involving Chinese Pakistani nationals, creating significant harm towards CPEC progress success, especially under enormous geopoliti...

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism? Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people’s far right-wing attitudes and xenophobia. Estimates from three different German data sets show a posit...

Introduction The theoretical crisis facing Marxism, and the political crisis gripping the socialist movement internationally, is clearly grave. In marked contrast to the past few decades, where to be progressive was to be socialist and to be intellectual was to be left, we are entering a decade where socialism is in retreat and leftists are on the defensive. Indeed, some have concluded that to ...

There has been a strong link between computermediated education and constructivism learning and teaching theory.. Acknowledging how well the constructivism doctrine would work online, it has been established that constructivist views of learning would agreeably correlate with the philosophy of open and distance learning. Asynchronous and synchronous communications have placed online learning on...

BACKGROUND The literature has rarely paid attention to the differential influence of intergroup contact on subtle and blatant prejudice. In this study, we hypothesized that the influence of intergroup contact on subtle prejudice will be smaller than its influence on blatant prejudice. METHOD This hypothesis was tested with data from a cross-sectional design on 1,655 school-aged native Spanish...

The present study identifies a broad taxonomy of motives underlying the desire to regulate prejudice and assess the impact of motivation to regulate prejudice on levels of explicit and implicit prejudice. Using self-determination theory as the foundation, six forms of motivation to regulate prejudice are proposed. In Study 1 (N = 257), an exploratory factor analysis reveals evidence for the six...

To date, there is little direct evidence that people who are motivated to respond without prejudice actively work to reduce their prejudice. The authors explored people's efforts to control prejudice for an upcoming interracial interaction. They proposed that people who were motivated to respond without prejudice should exert effort to control prejudice but that their efforts should reflect the...

The author of the article refers to socio-psychological analysis motivational and evaluative foundations differentiation by adolescents “ours” “strangers” in modern multi-ethnic sociocultural environment. strengthening migration flows creates a special socio-cultural situation Russia, when there are practically no mono-ethnic regions left have integrate into multicultural, Thus, socialisation c...