The role of short-term and longer term immigration trends on voting for populist radical right parties in Europe

The success of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) in Europe has, in part, been attributed to growing immigration, but previous findings have found an inconsistent relationship between immigration and voting for PRRPs. We address previous inconsistencies by suggesting a time-focused perspective on intergroup relations. We disentangle short-term from longer term immigration trends and argue that a recent increase in immigration should predict PRRP support. With time, however, citizens will adapt to these demographic changes and voting for PRRPs could decline. We drew on official immigration records and representative data from the European Social Survey, capturing the voting behavior of 75,874 individuals from 15 European countries between 2002 and 2014. We found that a recent increase in immigration predicted more PRRP voting, and this relationship was strengthened under conditions of higher economic strain and inequality. In contrast, sustained immigration in the longer term was not related with PRRP votes.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The opportunities and challenges of diversity: explaining its impact on individuals and groups

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Demographic trends reveal that modern societies have become increasingly diverse. Within the social sciences, these changes have been reflected in concerns about the implications of social diversity. Whilst early research noted that diversity may have negative consequences for societies and individuals, more recent scholarship has indicated that diversity is not always translated into negative outcomes. These inconsistent findings initiated a scholarly debate concerning the impact of many different forms of diversity for a host of social outcomes. It is now clear that the boundary conditions of these effects are yet to be fully understood. This Special Issue offers a collection of research advances identifying mediating and moderating variables addressing when and why diversity impacts intergroup relational outcomes. By focusing on different levels of diversity (i.e., in the society and in groups), this research also sheds light on the effectiveness of ideologies and policies for managing diversity.This research was supported by a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (627982) awarded to the first author, grants from The Leverhulme and the Economic & Social Research Council (ORA programme) to the second author, and a fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Social Interactions, Identity and Well-Being program to the fourth author

When group members forgive: antecedents and consequences

Whether forgiveness is essential for intergroup reconciliation may be disputable, but its potential ability to repair human relationships following offenses committed based on group membership remains of considerable importance. The primary focus of this Special Issue is on the social-contextual factors that encourage forgiveness of past wrongs and the extent to which forgiveness results in meaningful improvement in intergroup relations. The concept of Intergroup Forgiveness has only appeared on the research agenda of social psychologists over the last decade, so there is still much room for conceptual clarification, empirical validation and applications to understanding intergroup reconciliation. Significant progress has been made by investigating predictors and correlates of intergroup forgiveness, and the research presented in this Special Issue further illuminates the processes involved in Intergroup Forgiveness, as well as important consequences. This collection of empirical articles, based on diverse theoretical perspectives and empirical approaches to studying the phenomenon of intergroup forgiveness inside and outside of the laboratory, advance our understanding of when and how improvement emerges across a wide range of real and enduring conflicts.Key words: intergroup forgiveness, intergroup relations, conflict, victim, perpetrato

Radical news? Immigrants’ television use, acculturation challenges, and support for terrorism

Previous research shows that acculturation challenges predict immigrants’ support for terrorism. Here, we acknowledge the central role of mass media use in the acculturation process. We investigate whether immigrants who infrequently use ethnic and host country media, a possible indicator or driver of marginalisation, report higher sympathy with terrorism than frequent media users. We further examine if those who prefer ethnic over host country media, which might reflect or facilitate disengagement from the host society, support terrorism more strongly. To address these research questions, we conducted secondary analyses of a public opinion poll of Muslim immigrants resident in the United Kingdom (N = 880). Focusing on immigrants’ use of ethnic and host country television channels, latent class analysis identified four groups: Frequent and Infrequent Media Users as well as Ethnic and Host Country Media Users. Overall sympathy with terrorism was low. Contesting our hypothesis, Frequent Media Users supported terrorist action more than Infrequent Media Users. Ethnic Media Users also expressed higher sympathy with terrorism than Host Country Media Users. Findings emphasise the dynamic interplay between media use and acculturation challenges; they further suggest strategies to reduce immigrants’ support for terrorism

Propranolol reduces implicit negative racial bias.

BACKGROUND: Implicit negative attitudes towards other races are important in certain kinds of prejudicial social behaviour. Emotional mechanisms are thought to be involved in mediating implicit "outgroup" bias but there is little evidence concerning the underlying neurobiology. The aim of the present study was to examine the role of noradrenergic mechanisms in the generation of implicit racial attitudes. METHODS: Healthy volunteers (n = 36) of white ethnic origin, received a single oral dose of the β-adrenoceptor antagonist, propranolol (40 mg), in a randomised, double-blind, parallel group, placebo-controlled, design. Participants completed an explicit measure of prejudice and the racial implicit association test (IAT), 1-2 h after propranolol administration. RESULTS: Relative to placebo, propranolol significantly lowered heart rate and abolished implicit racial bias, without affecting the measure of explicit racial prejudice. Propranolol did not affect subjective mood. CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that β-adrenoceptors play a role in the expression of implicit racial attitudes suggesting that noradrenaline-related emotional mechanisms may mediate negative racial bias. Our findings may also have practical importance given that propranolol is a widely used drug. However, further studies will be needed to examine whether a similar effect can be demonstrated in the course of clinical treatment

Using intercultural videos of direct contact to implement vicarious contact: A school-based intervention that improves intergroup attitudes

We aimed to create an engaging and dynamic intervention for schools that uses videos of direct school peer contact to implement a vicarious contact intervention. Participants were ethnic majority (Italian) and minority (immigrant) high-school students (N = 485, age ranging from 14 to 22 years old, mean age = 17.24 years), who were asked to watch and evaluate videos created by peers from their school for a competition for the best video on intercultural friendships. Results revealed that vicarious contact, relative to a control condition where participants were not shown any videos, improved outgroup attitudes, reduced negative outgroup stereotypes, and increased willingness to engage in contact with the outgroup. These effects only emerged when intercultural friendships in the videos were salient. Inclusion of the other in the self, but neither intergroup anxiety nor fear of rejection by the outgroup, significantly mediated the effect of the videos on outcomes. We discuss theoretical and practical implications of the findings

PETEROA-INIA: Una nueva variedad de triticale

Peteroa-INIA is a new triticale, XTriticosecale Wittmack, created by the Wheat Breeding Project at the Carillanca Research Center of the Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA). The cross was conducted in 1993 and corresponded to: Tca 3050-90//Tca 28-87/Temu 351-87, where the two Tca progenitors were advanced lines of triticale, and Temu 351-87 was an advanced alternative wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). All the lines were developed at the Carillanca Research Center. The pedigree is TT-6148-t-3t-2t and its internal name in the project is Tca 3504-99. Peteroa-INIA is a variety with a facultative growth habit, with a period from sowing to heading 6 and 15 days longer than the current commercial triticale cultivars Calbuco-INIA and Tolhuaca-INIA, respectively. The mean plant height was 108 cm, 30 cm shorter than the above-mentioned commercial varieties. It has a compact, bearded and light brown spike, and its 1000 grain weight varied between 36.3 and 41.8 g. It is resistant to stripe and leaf rust. Its mean yield, based on three years of trials, was 10.37 t ha-1. The bread quality analysis indicated that it can be assimilated to a soft wheat, and the bromatological analysis of the grain showed higher protein content and better general indices than those of Calbuco-INIA, the commercial variety currently most used for animal feed in Southern Chile.Peteroa-INIA es una nueva variedad de triticale XTriticosecale Wittmack, creada por el Proyecto de Mejoramiento de Trigo del Centro Regional de Investigaci\uf3n Carillanca del Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIA). El cruzamiento se efectu\uf3 en 1993 y correspondi\uf3 a: Tca 3050-90//Tca 28-87/ Temu 351-87, donde los dos progenitores Tca eran l\uedneas avanzadas de triticale y Temu 351-87 una l\uednea avanzada de trigo (Triticum aestivum L.) alternativo, todas desarrolladas en Carillanca. Su pedigree fue TT-6148-t-3t-2t y su denominaci\uf3n interna Tca 3504-99. Es una variedad de h\ue1bito de desarrollo alternativo, con un per\uedodo desde siembra a espigadura de 6 y 15 d\uedas m\ue1s largo que el de las actuales variedades comerciales Calbuco-INIA y Tolhuaca-INIA, respectivamente. Su altura de planta promedio fue de 108 cm, 30 cm m\ue1s corta que la de las variedades mencionadas. Posee una espiga compacta, barbada, de color pardo claro, y su peso de 1000 granos vari\uf3 entre 36,3 y 41,8 g. Es resistente al ataque de polvillo estriado y de la hoja, y su rendimiento promedio en tres a\uf1os de ensayos y tres localidades alcanz\uf3 10,37 t ha-1. El an\ue1lisis de calidad panadera lo asimila a un trigo suave, y en an\ue1lisis bromatol\uf3gicos del grano destac\uf3 por su mayor contenido de prote\uedna y mejores \uedndices generales que los de Calbuco-INIA, la variedad m\ue1s utilizada actualmente en la zona sur de Chile para alimentaci\uf3n animal