Values and communication apprehension as antecedents of conflict styles in intercultural conflicts: A study in Germany and Russia.

Batkhina, Anastasia

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“…According to the Status Construction Theory, status evokes an inferential process about the abilities of target groups by their relative group position in society (Berger et al, 2002;Ridgeway, 2000Ridgeway, , 2018. Status of ethnic groups are widely emphasized as a crucial factor for intercultural relations (e.g., Batkhina, 2020;Berry et al, 1977;Campbell, 1967;Grigoryan, 2020;Grigoryev et al, 2019;Jost et al, 2005;Zou & Cheryan, 2017; see also Koch et al, 2016). In particular, it is argued that status determines contact likelihood across groups and lessens dehumanized perception (Khatry et al, 2021;Kraus & Stephens, 2012;Fiske, 2013).…”

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Ethnic Stereotype Content Beyond Intergroup Relations Within Societies: Exploring the North-South Hypothesis for Competence and Warmth

Grigoryev

2022

Cross-Cultural Research

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The study extends the approach of the Stereotype Content Model to ethnic stereotype content beyond intergroup relations within societies by exploring the North-South hypothesis for competence and warmth. This paper claims that the “desperate” (resource-poor and unpredictable) of lower-latitude climate regions and “hopeful” (resource-sufficient and stable) ecology higher-latitude climate regions translate into typical aggregate attributes and are afterward generalized to the status of all their residents. Further, people use this information as a diagnostic for judgments about the economic value or burden of ethnic groups in their society. Based on the data about aggregated means of competence and warmth for 77 ethnic groups in 38 regions, the multivariate models show that ethnic groups from warmer climates and from lower wealth countries are given lower evaluation in both competence and warmth stereotypes. However, ethnic groups from more northerly countries are also given a lower evaluation in warmth. Ethnic stereotypes reflect both features of ethnic groups in countries of origin (e.g., the North-South polarization) and group characteristics carried by ethnic groups in new contexts (i.e., intergroup relations). Thus, reactions to ethnic groups seem to differ partly depending on countries of origin mixed in people’s minds with information about geography, climate, and national wealth in the social perception process. Stereotypes associated with ethnic groups across countries to some extent track the stereotypes associated with the ecologies in which these ethnic groups are assumed to predominantly live. This highlights the importance of the establishment or expansion of policies and programs regarding international inequality.

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Ethnic Stereotype Content Beyond Intergroup Relations Within Societies: Exploring the North-South Hypothesis for Competence and Warmth

Grigoryev

2022

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“…Кроме того, наверняка существуют также и культурные паттерны в стилях ответов. Решением здесь может быть, как было указано выше, использование специально составленных индексов, которые бы интегрировали ответы, полученные с использованием «термометра чувств», путем применения разработанной для этой цели новой методики 11 .…”

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“…Поскольку количество желающих иммигрировать в развитые страны, вероятно, увеличится в ближайшие годы, негативное отношение к иммигрантам может перерасти в серьезную долгосрочную проблему, требующую всеобъемлющего решения. Таким образом, чтобы планировать меры по урегулированию данных вопросов на программном уровне, необходимо четко представлять отноше-ние принимающего общества к иммигрантам на групповом и индивидуальном уровнях, особенно с учетом того, что множество процессов здесь являются реципрокными [11].…”

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Problems of conceptualisation and operationalisation of attitudes toward immigrants in cross-national comparative research

Grigoryev¹

2020

Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

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The paper continues the ongoing discussion among experts by considering in detail the problematic inconsistency in the conceptualisation and operationalisation of attitudes toward immigrants in cross-national comparative research. The sources of the identified problems, which are primarily associated with a theoretical impasse, namely the isolation and replication of the tradition of the theory of competitive threat and excessive reliance on literature (especially American) on racial prejudice (but attitudes toward immigrants and attitudes toward the African American population of the United States are far from the same thing). Suggestions are being raised regarding the need for a clear definition of the boundaries between groups (immigrants and host population), applying group-specific approach, overcoming terminological diversity, greater differentiation of related constructs, transition from reflective approach to measurement models to formative one to compile a special comparative index of attitudes toward immigrants taking into account country (regional) specifics, solving the measurement problem in the framework of the survey method when selecting items for the questionnaire (including avoiding double-barreled items). It is also considered options for applied conceptualisation of attitudes toward immigrants within metaphors of distance (social distance) and temperature («feeling thermometer») and related issues of their operationalisation. If necessary, illustrations and examples relevant to Russian reality are given.

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“…The findings point to the importance of developing a common constructive narrative that could be adopted by the two sides, adopting as a point of departure the narratives used by activists closely engaged in the reconciliation effort. The importance of developing shared narratives and values is also highlighted by Batkhina (2020), in her innovative study of preferences for different conflict styles among Germans and Russians.…”

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Strongman leadership and mutual radicalization.

Moghaddam

2020

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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The rise of "strongman leadership" across the globe, including in Western societies, has been noted in both the mass media and academic publications. Also noted is the tendency for strongman leadership to be associated with antiglobalization, anti-international institutions, and antiuniversal human rights. But less attention has been given to the tendency for strongman leadership to nurture and accelerate mutual radicalization, the process through which groups and nations drive each other to extremes (Moghaddam, 2018). This comes about in large part because strongman leaders are categorical thinkers, authoritarian, and ethnocentric: They not only perceive the world as strictly divided into "us versus them," but they also mobilize supporters through the rhetoric of ingroup superiority and aggression against "others." Depending on the context, these others can be Mexicans, Muslims, Blacks, Jews, or other minorities. What all these minorities have in common is that they are dissimilar to "our group."The mobilization achieved by the strongman is through pathological hatred: We will do whatever it takes to reject and harm you, even if we suffer in the process. Whatever the cost to us, your pain is our gain. The inevitable result of behavior driven by pathological hatred is the growth of different types of conflict. For example, inside countries the persecution of minorities instigated by the strongman leads to increased intergroup conflicts, such as of the kind we are witnessing between Hindus and Muslims in India, White nationalists and Indigenous people in Brazil, Turkish nationalists and Kurds in Turkey, and Shiites and Sunnis in Syria. Rather than trying to transform and minimize such conflicts, the strongman feeds hatreds and uses conflicts to mobilize his authoritarian base and further move the country along a path of mutual radicalization.Mutual radicalization through strongman leadership also results in heightened conflict between nations, as in the case of Iran and the United States. The strongman leadership in both Iran and the United States mobilizes their base through this conflict and also distracts from their internal problems. In Iran, the leadership keeps up a drumbeat of "Death to America" as a way to blame external factors for the terrible plight of Iranians and to justify the continuation of a corrupt dictatorship with a religious front. In the United States, the Trump administration finds Iran a useful distraction from the impeachment of the president, the cutting of food stamps and other support for the poor, and tax policies that transfer more wealth to the rich.In societies characterized by mutual radicalization, people arrive at a balkanized position where they feel "we can no longer talk to the other side," "the gap between us is too far to bridge," "there is no longer a middle way." Each side sees the other side as radical, irrational, incapable of reasoning and compromising. Each side asks, "How can they believe those things? How can they think like that? How can they deny the obvious facts?...

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Values and communication apprehension as antecedents of conflict styles in intercultural conflicts: A study in Germany and Russia.

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Ethnic Stereotype Content Beyond Intergroup Relations Within Societies: Exploring the North-South Hypothesis for Competence and Warmth

Ethnic Stereotype Content Beyond Intergroup Relations Within Societies: Exploring the North-South Hypothesis for Competence and Warmth

Problems of conceptualisation and operationalisation of attitudes toward immigrants in cross-national comparative research

Strongman leadership and mutual radicalization.

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