Abstraction is a useful process for broadening mental horizons, integrating new
experiences, and communicating information to others. Much attention has been directed at …

This study is the first comparative analysis of mediated political personalization in the
international arena; its contribution to the research in the field is twofold:(a) through a …

The increasing visibility of prominent political leaders in news media is well documented in
political science literature. The main concern that has been raised in this connection is that …

Abstract Ethnophaulisms (AA Roback, 1944) are the words used as ethnic slurs to refer to
out-groups in hate speech. The results of previous archival research have suggested that it …

Ethnophaulisms are the words used as slurs to refer to ethnic immigrant outgroups. This
article explores the effects of these cognitive representations of ethnic immigrant groups on …

Research has shown that more abstract, higher-level thinking induces a greater focus on
similarities when comparing things. Using this framework, I posited that individuals' attraction …

The present research demonstrated that cognitive complexity is related to the perception of
contemporary, subtle racism. Results indicated that the perception of subtle racism was …

This is a study on international news flow based on a computerized analysis of foreign news
coverage of national leaders in seven liberal democracies (Canada, Germany, France …

Previous research does not inform us if exposure to positive outgroup exemplars is sufficient
to explain the observed prejudice reduction effect of extended contact or if interaction with …

The self-construal literature suggests that there is a gender difference in interdependence,
with women placing more value on relational groups and men placing more value on …