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dc.contributor.authorMatera, Camilla
dc.contributor.authorPicchiarini, Anna
dc.contributor.authorOlsson, Maria
dc.contributor.authorBrown, Rupert
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-30T11:19:29Z
dc.date.available2020-06-30T11:19:29Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-12
dc.description.abstractA 2 × 2 × 2 experiment examined the role of immigrants’ religion and perceived acculturation strategy on majority members’ attitudes. Acculturation strategies were manipulated along the two dimensions of contact and culture maintenance. Italian majority members (N = 247) read fictitious but seemingly real interviews with Arab immigrants, in which the immigrants’ religion (Muslim vs. Christian) and acculturation preferences (desire for contact and for culture maintenance) were manipulated. MANOVA showed a main effect of contact: majority members associated immigrants who were perceived to favour contact with more positive attitudes, empathy, trust, positive stereotypes and metastereotypes, and lower levels of threat. MANOVA also showed a main effect of culture maintenance: when immigrants were perceived to abandon their culture, majority members reported lower levels of symbolic threat and greater empathy towards them. A significant Religion x Culture maintenance interaction effect emerged on majority members’ stereotypes and contact intentions: Muslim immigrants who were perceived to abandon their heritage culture elicited more favourable responses than Muslim immigrants who were perceived to maintain their heritage culture. Taken together, these findings suggest that desire for intergroup contact amongst immigrants, independently of their religion, can promote harmonious intergroup relations with the majority group.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMatera, C., Picchiarini, A., Olsson, M. & Brown R. (2020). Does Religion Matter? Italians' Responses towards Muslim and Christian Arab Immigrants as a function of their Acculturation Preferences. <i>International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 75</i>, 1-9.en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1765479
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.12.002
dc.identifier.issn0147-1767
dc.identifier.issn1873-7552
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/18716
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journalInternational Journal of Intercultural Relations
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 Elsevieren_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humanities: 000::Theology and religious science: 150en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Humaniora: 000::Teologi og religionsvitenskap: 150en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialantropologi: 250en_US
dc.titleDoes Religion Matter? Italians' Responses towards Muslim and Christian Arab Immigrants as a function of their Acculturation Preferencesen_US
dc.type.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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