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“Some uninteresting data from a faraway country”: inequity and coloniality in international social psychological publications
Modern systems of knowledge production reinforce inequalities and coloniality, especially in the Global South. We investigated whether this was the case in contemporary social psychology. We examined manifestations of coloniality of knowledge (in the form of internalized Global North standards and practices) and critical awareness and reflection (historic and systemic attributions for collective disadvantages) in a survey of social psychologists in 64 countries (N = 232). Although colleagues in the Global South and Southern and Eastern Europe adopted Global Northern publication standards and tendencies, their compliance seemed motivated by institutional demands and pragmatic concerns rather than internalized inferiority or principled conviction. Regarding international mainstream publication practices, participants from all regions (most prominently outside the Global North) reported biases, under-representation, lack of relevance, and structural disadvantages. Participants offered mainly systemic attributions for these and other disadvantages. These findings suggest that social psychologists engaged with the international publication system are caught in a double-bind between collective systemic disadvantages and coerced compliance, especially outside the Global North. Discussion focuses on the mixed-motive tensions these social psychologists experience in publishing internationally under these conditions, and the implications of this status quo for knowledge production in the discipline
Anti-roma bias (stereotypes, prejudice, behavioral tendencies): A network approach toward attitude strength
The Roma have been and still are a target of prejudice, marginalization, and social
exclusion across Europe, especially in East-Central European countries. This paper
focuses on a set of stereotypical, emotional, and behavioral evaluative responses toward
Roma people selected as representing the underlying components of anti-Roma bias.
Employing network analysis, we investigated if attitude strength is associated with
stronger connectivity in the networks of its constituent elements. The findings from
representative surveys carried out in Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, France, and Ireland
supported our assumption, as high attitude strength toward the Roma resulted in stronger
connectivity in all pairs of high- versus low-attitude-strength networks. Our finding
yields a solid theoretical framework for targeting the central variables—those with the
strongest associations with other variables—as a potentially effective attitude change
intervention strategy. Moreover, perceived threat to national identity, sympathy, and
empathy were found to be the most central variables in the networks