CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY LAB

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Intergroup Relations

INTERGROUP RELATIONS

Below are the projects of the Cultural Psychology Lab focused on intergroup relations.

  • Doosje, E. J., Özdemir, F., Cong, Y., & Feddes, A. R. (2025). The role of perceived misrecognition in intergroup relations: Recommendations for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Peace and Conflict : Journal of Peace Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000815
  • Feddes, A. R., Arjangi-Babetti, H. J., Bosdijk, S., Klawitter, L., Romers, A. H., Tsaousoglou, S., Doosje, B., Effting, M., & van Emmerik, A. A. P. (2025). Effects of refugee settlement on citizens: A prospective longitudinal study of associations between perceived intergroup threat and mental health. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 28(1), 50-66. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241248001
  • Gligorić, V., Reinhardt, C., Nieuwenhuijzen, E., Orobio de Castro, J., Feddes, A. R., van Kleef, G. A., & Rutjens, B. T. (2025). The role of worldviews, radicalization risk factors, and personality in harassment of scientists. Scientific Reports, 15, Article 1261. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-85208-7
  • Kesberg, R., Feddes, A. R., Vogel, E., & Rutjens, B. T. (2025). Associations between perceived societal polarisation and (extreme) non-normative attitudes and behavior. Social Inclusion, 13, Article 10248. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.10248
  • Szekeres, H., Gati, E., Onyeador, I., Kende, A., & Doosje, B. Reducing teachers’ paternalistic bias towards ethnic minority girls (Registered Report Stage I.) Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 123, 104855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2025.104855
  • Szekeres, H., Bruneau, E. & Doosje, B. (2025). Dual pathway of prejudice in education: teachers’ paternalistic and hostile prejudice affecting minority girls. Social Psychology of Education, 28, 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11218-025-10061-5
  • Urbiola, A. I., López-Rodríguez, L., Torres-Vega, L. C., Posion, X. D., Lásticová, B., Pántya, J., Szekeres, H., & Kende, A. (2025). Believing that social change is possible: Collective efficacy to promote engagement and mobilization of non-Roma as allies. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64, e12895. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12895
  • Özdemir, F., Doosje, B., Feddes, A. R., van Bergen, N. R., Ayanian, A. H., Halabi, S., Guevara, Y., Kende, A., Karić, T., da Silva, C., de Jong, J. C., Pántya, J., Zick, A., Reicher, S. D., & Hopkins, N. (2024). Antecedents and consequences of perceived misrecognition and perceived discrimination in ethnic minorities. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 99, Article 101938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101938
  • Szekeres, H., Lantos, N. A., Faragó, L., Nyúl, B., & Kende, A. (2024). When the Perspective-Taking Shoe Does Not Fit: The Role of Perspective-Taking Orientation in a Perspective-Taking Prejudice Reduction Intervention. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2785
  • Doosje, B., Szekeres, H., Quezada, E. C., Boiger, M., & Kende, J. (2023). Moral emotions in intergroup relations—the motivations and consequences of advantaged group members’ aims to challenge the intergroup inequality. The Routledge International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality. http://doi.org/10.4324/9781003125969-27
  • Feddes, A. R., Nickolson, L., van Bergen, N. R. J., Mann, L., & Doosje, B. (2023). Extremist thinking and doing: A systematic literature study of empirical findings on factors associated with (de)radicalisation processes. International Journal of Developmental Science, 17(1-3), 7-18. https://doi.org/10.3233/DEV-230345
  • Szekeres, H., Halperin, E., Kende, A., & Saguy, T. (2023). The aversive bystander effect whereby egalitarian bystanders overestimate the confrontation of prejudice. Scientific Reports, 13, 10538. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-37601-3
  • Szabó, Zs. P., Witkowsa, M., & Szekeres, H. (2023). When and why moral exemplars fail to motivate intergroup reconciliation. Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/crq.21391
  • Da Silva, C., de Jong, J., Feddes, A. R., Doosje, B., & Gruev-Vintila, A. (2022). Where Are You Really From? Understanding Misrecognition From the Experiences of French and Dutch Muslim Women Students. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10(1), 201-217. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.9395
  • Gavan, L., Hartog, K., Koppenol-Gonzalez, G. V., Gronholm, P. C., Feddes, A. R., Kohrt, B. A., Jordans, M. J. D., & Peters, R. M. H. (2022). Assessing stigma in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of scales used with children and adolescents. Social Science & Medicine, 307, Article 115121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115121
  • Gligorić, V., Feddes, A., & Doosje, B. (2022). Political Bullshit Receptivity and its Correlates: A Cross-Country Validation of the Concept. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 10(2), 411-429. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.6565
  • Reiter, J., Doosje, B., & Feddes, A. R. (2022). Radicalization and Deradicalization: A Qualitative Analysis of Parallels in Relevant Risk Factors and Trigger Factors. Peace and Conflict, 27(2), 268-283. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000493
  • Szekeres, H., Halperin, E., Kende, A., & Saguy, T. (2022). Endorsing Negative Intergroup Attitudes to Justify Failure to Confront Prejudice. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221120488
  • van Bergen, D. D., Feddes, A. R., & de Ruyter, D. (2021). Perceived discrimination against Dutch Muslim youths in the school context and its relation with externalising behaviour. Oxford Review of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2020.1862779
  • Khatry, P., Manokara, K., & Harris, L. (2020). Socioeconomic Status and Dehumanization in India: Elaboration of the Stereotype Content Model in a Non-WEIRD Sample. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620976206
  • Hoyle, A., van den Berg, H., Doosje, B., & Kitzen, M. (2021). On the brink: identifying psychological indicators of societal destabilization in Donetsk, Luhansk and Crimea. Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1080/17467586.2021.1895262
  • Feddes, A. R., Nickolson, L., Mann, L., & Doosje, B. (2020). Psychological Perspectives on Radicalization. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315178837
  • MacDougall, A. I., Feddes, A. R., & Doosje, B. (2020). “They’ve Put Nothing in the Pot!”: Brexit and the Key Psychological Motivations Behind Voting ‘Remain’ and ‘Leave’. Political Psychology, 41(5), 979-995. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12660
  • Szekeres, H. (2020). Kedvelni vagy tisztelni? Az előítéletek csökkentése a melegszívűség és kompetencia dimenzióiban [Like or Respect? Reducing Prejudice through dimensions of warmth and competence]. Alkalmazott Pszichológia [Applied Psychology, HU], 20(4), 123-157. http://doi.org/10.17627/ALKPSZICH.2020.4.15
  • Bruneau, E., Szekeres, H., Kteily, N., Tropp, L. R., & Kende, A. (2020). Beyond dislike: Blatant dehumanization predicts teacher discrimination even (and especially) among teachers low in prejudice. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 23(4), 560-577. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219845462
  • Lu, M., Fung, H. H., & Doosje, B. (2017). Intergroup conflicts: When interdependent individuals feel less dialectical than independent individuals. Personality and Individual Differences, 105, 150-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.09.027 
  • Feddes, A. R., Mann, L., & Doosje, B. (2015). Increasing self-esteem and empathy to prevent violent radicalization: a longitudinal quantitative evaluation of a resilience training focused on adolescents with a dual identity. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 45(7), 400-411. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12307 
  • Doosje, B., van den Bos, K., Loseman, A., Feddes, A. R., & Mann, L. (2012). “My in-group is superior!”: susceptibility for radical right-wing attitudes and behaviors in Dutch youth. Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, 5(3), 253-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-4716.2012.00099.x