Using nostalgia to reduce prejudice toward immigrants

Gravani, Maria N.; Soureti, Anastasia; Stathi, Sofia

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2294

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“…Nostalgic recollection promoted more positive attitudes, beliefs, and behavioral intentions, in part by increasing the extent to which overweight persons were included in the self and enhancing the trust of overweight individuals. Similar findings have been reported with different outgroups, such as people with a mental health condition (Turner et al, 2013), older adults (Turner et al, 2018), and immigrants (Gravani et al, 2018).…”

Section: Nostalgia and Outgroup Attitudessupporting

confidence: 87%

Reducing social distance caused by weight stigma: Nostalgia changes behavior toward overweight individuals

Turner

Sedikides

2022

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Weight stigma, a negative attitude toward the overweight, can lead to discriminatory practices, as well as increase overweight individuals' vulnerability to depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem. We propose that a nostalgia induction can attenuate weight stigma. Participants identified an overweight individual, before writing about an interpersonal encounter with that individual, characterized by either central (e.g., "keepsakes" and "childhood") or peripheral (e.g., "wishing" and "daydreaming") features of the construct "nostalgia." Participants who recalled a central (vs. peripheral) nostalgic encounter reported more positive feelings and beliefs toward overweight individuals in general. Moreover, nostalgia influenced behavior: Nostalgic (vs. control) participants reduced their social distance when anticipating an interaction with an overweight individual. The effect of nostalgia on all three outcomes (i.e., positive feelings, beliefs, and behavior) was mediated by greater social connectedness, which in turn was associated with higher inclusion of the outgroup in the self and increased outgroup trust. | INTRODUCTIONOverweight individuals are faced with negative stereotypes, such as lazy, socially inept, unhappy, self-indulgent, ugly, uncooperative, and stupid (Harris et al., 2006;Puhl & Brownell, 2001). When it comes to romantic relationships, they are perceived as undesirable prospective dates (

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Section: Nostalgia and Outgroup Attitudessupporting

confidence: 87%

Reducing social distance caused by weight stigma: Nostalgia changes behavior toward overweight individuals

Turner

Sedikides

2022

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…As a general emotion, nostalgia is regarded as a psychological coping mechanism characterized by a “sentimental longing for the past” (see Sedikides & Wildschut, 2019, p. 123). Personal nostalgia, the type relevant to the self and one’s own past experiences and life, has been shown to exert positive effects on well-being and positive affect (e.g., Baldwin et al, 2015), and may even reduce outgroup prejudice, particularly when inducing nostalgia about one’s past interaction with an outgroup member 2 (Gravani et al, 2018; Turner et al, 2012, 2013, 2018).…”

Section: Collective Nostalgiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Dealing with declining dominance: White identification and anti-immigrant hostility in the US

Earle

Hodson

2022

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Increasing diversity and the anticipation of its resulting cultural change is raising vociferous protestations among White Americans. Here, we explore moderation and mediation of its intergroup implications. Among a nationally representative sample of White Americans, Study 1 ( n = 2,257) revealed that living in a region that experienced a greater (vs. lesser) increase in racial diversity in recent years was associated with more anti-immigrant attitudes, but only among those who were highly White-identified. In an experiment, Study 2 ( n = 420, White Americans) revealed that collective nostalgia (i.e., longing for the ingroup’s past) mediated the relation between anticipated cultural change resulting from shifting demographics and anti-immigrant attitudes, but only for those who were highly White-identified. Thus, anti-immigrant sentiment among White Americans in response to changing demographics and culture is seen primarily among those personally invested in their White racial identity, an effect partly explained by a longing for bygone days.

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“…Prototypicality was operationalized as the degree to which the online aggressor was representative of a belief, namely a positive opinion about integration of immigrants. It is worth noting that university students usually hold positive attitudes about immigrants (see, e.g., Boccato et al, 2015 ; Gravani et al, 2018 ; Vezzali & Giovannini, 2010 ; Vezzali et al, 2015 ), thus positive opinions about integration of immigrants are likely to activate an ingroup category.…”

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confidence: 99%

At the core of cyberaggression: A group‐based explanation

Trifiletti

Giannini

Vezzali

et al. 2021

Aggressive Behavior

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In this study, prototypicality of the aggressor was tested as a group-level factor predicting social media users' active participation in cyberaggression. Participants were exposed to a fictitious conversation, in which either a prototypical versus nonprototypical user posted an aggressive comment as a reply to a provocative comment. In line with self-categorization theory, we hypothesized that bystander participants would post an aggressive comment and rate the aggression as acceptable to a greater extent in the prototypical than in the non-prototypical condition. Furthermore, we predicted that perceived normativity of aggression would mediate the effect of prototypicality. Results supported these predictions and showed that prototypical members affect the extent to which collective aggressive behaviors in online interactions are approved and enacted.These findings highlight the importance of group-level factors in the study of cyberaggression and provide important information for understanding the psychological underpinnings of collective forms of online aggression.

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Using nostalgia to reduce prejudice toward immigrants

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Reducing social distance caused by weight stigma: Nostalgia changes behavior toward overweight individuals

Reducing social distance caused by weight stigma: Nostalgia changes behavior toward overweight individuals

Dealing with declining dominance: White identification and anti-immigrant hostility in the US

At the core of cyberaggression: A group‐based explanation

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