The current work sought to test the moderating role of a multicultural ideology on the relationship between categorisation salience and ingroup bias. Accordingly, in one experimental study, we manipulated categorisation salience and the accessibility of a multicultural ideology, and measured intergroup attitudes. Results show that categorisation salience only leads to ingroup bias when a multiculturalism (MC) i...
This research analyses the mediational role of threat perception in the relationship between prejudice and discrimination (opposition to immigration and opposition to naturalization of immigrants). In the first study, using representative samples in 21 European countries (N¼36 566) from European Social Survey (2002), we showed that the relationship between prejudice and opposition to immigration was more strong...
The social psychological literature considers two main perspectives on the study of perceived cultural differences between majorities and minorities: one proposes that perception of cultural differences is an antecedent of prejudice and another states that the attribution of cultural differences to minorities is already a hidden expression of racial prejudice. This paper offers further support to this latter pe...
Doutoramento em Psicologia Social ; Este trabalho analisa os efeitos da semelhança/diferença intergrupal nas atitudes intergrupais no contexto das relações entre Portugueses (maioria) e grupos imigrantes. A literatura revela que a relação entre semelhança/diferença intergrupal e atitudes intergrupais está longe de ser directa. Uma perspectiva derivada da Abordagem da Interdependência de Objectivos (Sherif, Har...
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