@article {701781,
	title = {Predictors of climate change policy preferences: A machine learning approach},
	journal = {Global Environmental Change},
	year = {In Preparation},
	abstract = {
	Climate change poses a significant threat to planetary and civilizational health. Fossil fuel taxation policies are an effective climate change mitigation strategy. Yet, public opinion research indicates that support for these climate change mitigation measures vary greatly across nations. Here, using machine learning techniques on a set of nationally representative surveys of 22 European countries and Israel, we determine the relative influence of a large number (151 predictors) of individual-level attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, and behaviors from six groups (i.e., [1] media and social trust, [2] politics, [3] subjective well-being, social exclusion, religion, national and ethnic identity, [4] attitudes towards climate change, [5] energy security and energy preferences, [6] welfare attitudes, [7] human values) and socio-demographic factors, as well as national-level indices of social, economic, ecological, and environmental development. Across nations, feeling personally responsible for reducing climate change, being concerned about climate change, and willingness to reduce one{\textquoteright}s own energy usage are the three most frequent and most robust individual predictors of climate change mitigation policy support (vs. opposition). However, other key factors associated with policy support, such as general political- and welfare attitudes, highlight the need to develop tailored climate communication strategies for individual groups and nations. Moreover, results show substantial within-country variation when comparing undecided, supportive, and opposed respondents{\textquoteright} key predictors, indicating different sets of underlying psychological motivations. Fossil fuel consumption per capita and economic, environmental, ecological development indicators predict between-country dissimilarities.

},
	url = {https://psyarxiv.com/65tx4},
	author = {Fatih Uenal and Jonas Kunst and Sa-kiera T.J. Hudson and Shashi Badloe and Tobias Brosch}
}
@article {701776,
	title = {A systematic review and meta-analysis of communication interventions to promote climate change mitigation},
	journal = {Nature Human Behaviour},
	year = {In Preparation},
	abstract = {
	Individual behavior change towards more sustainable, low-carbon lifestyles is crucial for climate change mitigation. Effective public communication conveying the necessity for behavior change is a key mechanism to achieve this goal. However, our current understanding of the efficacy of the different strategies used in communication efforts to promote individual behavior change is incomplete. This study examines the effectiveness of different types of public communication interventions and the impact of several relevant moderators in a systematic review and meta-analysis. We screened 3519 publications, reviewed 2591 eligible publications and analyzed 108 publications with 587 effect sizes (n = 308.975) obtained from randomized controlled trials and pre-post experimental intervention studies. Our results show that climate change communication interventions ...

},
	author = {Fatih Uenal and Laura Pagel and Tobia Spampatti and Tobias Brosch}
}
@article {667980,
	title = {Die geheime Islamisierung des Abendlandes: Gro{\ss}gruppenverschw{\"o}rungstheorien als N{\"a}hrboden von Fremdgruppendiskriminierung und Rechtspopulismus.},
	year = {Submitted},
	month = {July 2017},
	abstract = {The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of specific Islamophobic beliefs, namely, anti-Muslim prejudice, anti-Islam sentiment, and Islamophobic conspiracy theories on outgroup discrimination. Moreover, further intergroup and interindividual difference variables are included into the analyses. The results suggest of the online survey (N = 450) suggest that outgroup discrimination is best predicted by Islamophobic conspiracy theories, while simultaneously controlling for the effects of social dominance orientation, in-group identification, political conservatism and the two additional dimensions of Islamophobia. As expected, intergroup contact showed negative associations with outgroup discrimination.},
	url = {https://psyarxiv.com/4bax8/},
	author = {Fatih Uenal}
}
@article {701721,
	title = {The connections between personality, ideology and (counter-)empathic emotions depend on the target},
	journal = {Journal of Personality},
	year = {2023},
	month = {2022},
	abstract = {
	
		
			Objectives
		

		
			Examine the group-specific connections between personality, ideology, and the moral emotions of empathy and schadenfreude.
		
	

	
		
			Background
		

		
			Empathy and schadenfreude are emotions that often lead to moral prosocial or spiteful harmful behaviors respectively. An outstanding question is what motivates feelings of empathy and schadenfreude towards people from different groups. Here we examine two prominent motivators of emotions: personality traits and ideology. Previous work has found that people{\textquoteright}s ideological orientations towards respecting traditionalism (RWA) and preferences about group-based hierarchy (SDO) can impact intergroup emotions. Further, personality traits of low agreeableness, low openness, and high conscientiousness uniquely engender SDO and RWA.
		
	

	
		
			Method
		

		
			In the research presented here (Study 1 n = 492; Study 2 n = 786), we examine the relationships between personality traits, ideology, and emotions for groups that are perceived to be dangerous and competitive. We hypothesize that SDO and RWA will relate to reduced empathy and increased schadenfreude but towards unique groups. SDO will relate to reduced empathy and increased schadenfreude towards competitive, low-status groups while RWA will relate to reduced empathy and increased schadenfreude towards threatening groups. We further extend past work by investigating left-wing authoritarianism as well.
		
	

	
		
			Results
		

		
			We find broad support for our expectation that the relationships between personality and emotions, as well as ideology and emotions, depend on the specific group in question.
		
	

	
		
			Conclusions
		

		
			These results help expand the dual process motivational model of prejudice and suggest the importance of specifying a target group when assessing relationships between personality, ideology, and emotions.
		
	

},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.12860},
	author = {Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn Hudson and Fatih Uenal}
}
@presentation {701741,
	title = {"Where Do You Really Come From?{\textquotedblleft} },
	journal = {A Questionnaire on Subtle Discrimination Against People With a Migration Background From Turkey Living in Germany},
	year = {2022},
	url = {https://www.psychologie.hu-berlin.de/de/1694051/57490/klockeneuhausergorlicherdoganscholaskeuenal_2022_where-do-you-really-come-from_dgps_hildesheim_fur-www.pdf/@@download/file/KlockeNeuhauserGo\%C3\%8C\%CB\%86rlichErdoganScholaskeUenal_2022_Where\%20do\%20you\%},
	author = {Ulrich Klocke and Maik Neuhauser and Lennart G{\"o}rlich and Arman Erdogan and Laura Scholaske and Fatih Uenal}
}
@article {655147,
	title = {The roots of ecological dominance orientation: Assessing individual preferences for an anthropocentric worldview.},
	journal = {Journal of Environmental Psychology},
	volume = {81},
	number = {101783},
	year = {2022},
	month = {10.03.2022},
	abstract = {Ecological dominance is a central concept in the study of interspecies and species-environment relations. Yet, although theoretical and empirical work on ecological dominance has progressed in many scientific disciplines, the psychology of ecological dominance remains understudied. The present research advances theoretical and empirical inquiry on ecological dominance as a psychological construct, examining how it relates to humans{\textquoteright} attitudes, beliefs, and behavior across different relational domains (i.e., intraspecies, interspecies, human-environment). To this end, we validate a novel measure, the Ecological Dominance Orientation (EDO) scale, based on the popular iconic depiction of ecocentric versus anthropocentric arrangements of the relationship between humans, nonhuman animals, and the natural environment. In five pre-registered studies across two countries (N = 2407), we demonstrate that EDO a) relates to various attitudes in a similar fashion both within and between different relational domains, b) is uniquely associated with socially consequential attitudes (i.e., modern sexism, speciesism, dehumanization) above established measures of personal ideology, c) is reliable over time, d) relates to a distinct set of personality correlates, and e) uniquely predicts pro-environmental behavior. This research extends classical Social Dominance Theory (Sidanius \&amp; Pratto, 1999) by theorizing about the socio-ecological roots of intergroup, interspecies, and human-environment relations as hierarchically structured power relations. Theoretical implications of social and ecological dominance orientations are discussed.},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101783},
	author = {Fatih Uenal and Jim Sidanius and Rakoen Maertens and Sa-kiera T.J. Hudson and Gregory Davis and Asma Ghani}
}
@report {701771,
	title = {How to communicate about climate change: A concise guide. A step-by-step decision chart for more effective, equitable, and fair climate change communication in the context of individual behaviour change },
	year = {2022},
	institution = {Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva},
	address = {Geneva},
	author = {Fatih Uenal and Laura Pagel and Tobias Brosch}
}
@report {701766,
	title = {Review of Climate Change Communication and Behavioural Intervention Strategies to Maximise Behavioural Impact},
	year = {2022},
	institution = {Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva},
	address = {Geneva},
	author = {Fatih Uenal and Laura Pagel and Tobias Brosch}
}
@article {667060,
	title = {Climate change threats increase modern racism as a function of social dominance orientation and ingroup identification},
	journal = {Journal of Experimental Social Psychology},
	volume = {97},
	year = {2021},
	abstract = {Processing information on the negative consequences of climate change can have unrelated side-effects such as increased outgroup derogation. Previous research suggests differing theoretical explanations for these {\textquotedblleft}generalization{\textquotedblright} effects such as buffering existential anxiety. Across two pre-registered experiments (N\&nbsp;=\&nbsp;1031; USA \&amp; UK), we examine whether ingroup identification and social dominance orientation (SDO) moderate the relationship between experimentally induced collective threats and subjective threat perceptions (i.e., climate change and intergroup threat), modern racism, and pro-environmental collective action support. In Study 1, SDO and ingroup identification were measured 2\&nbsp;years prior to our experiment as antecedents of threat perceptions. Our results suggest that informing individuals about negative consequences of climate change (e.g., wildfires, floods, resource scarcity, health etc.), leads to higher intergroup threat perceptions and modern racism. These generalization effects, in turn, are moderated by SDO but not by ingroup identification. In Study 2, we successfully replicate our findings, measuring SDO and ingroup identification directly after the threat manipulation. Moreover, we use a behavioral measure of pro-environmental collective action to assess more direct stimuli-responses. In Study 2, again, we show that SDO moderates the generalization effects. In contrast, ingroup identification showed only marginally significant moderation of the generalization effect and did not increase itself in response to experimental threat-cues. Notably, we also find that intergroup threat-cues generalize onto higher climate change threat perceptions. No effects on behavioral collective action support were found.},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104228},
	author = {Fatih Uenal and Jim Sidanius and Jon Roozenbeek and Sander van der Linden}
}
@article {654589,
	title = {Social and ecological dominance orientations: Two sides of the same coin?},
	journal = { Group Processes \& Intergroup Relations},
	volume = {Online First},
	year = {2021},
	abstract = {Previous research highlights the role of climate change risk and threat perceptions as psychological mechanisms driving support for mitigation efforts. In this paper, we examine the role of social dominance orientation (SDO) as an antecedent of risk and threat perceptions and associated pro-environmental attitudes. Across three pre-registered studies (N = 988; USA, UK, and Germany) our results indicate that individuals high in SDO showed decreased support for climate change mitigation policies benefitting humans, non-human animals, and the natural environment alike. This relationship in turn is mediated by decreased climate change risk and threat perceptions and increased ecological dominance orientation, a general preference for an anthropocentric, hierarchical arrangement between humans, non-human animals, and the natural environment. We successfully replicate our findings using a behavioural measure. Theoretical implications for the role of social and ecological dominance orientations in shaping climate change risk and threat perceptions and pro-environmental behaviour are discussed.},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211010923},
	author = {Fatih Uenal and Jim Sidanius and Sander van der Linden}
}
@article {677951,
	title = {Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation.},
	journal = {Big Data \& Society},
	year = {2021},
	abstract = {Misinformation about the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a pressing societal challenge. Across two studies, one preregistered (n1 = 1771 and n2 = 1777), we assess the efficacy of two {\textquoteleft}prebunking{\textquoteright} interventions aimed at improving people{\textquoteright}s ability to spot manipulation techniques commonly used in COVID-19 misinformation across three different languages (English, French and German). We find that Go Viral!, a novel five-minute browser game, (a) increases the perceived manipulativeness of misinformation about COVID-19, (b) improves people{\textquoteright}s attitudinal certainty (confidence) in their ability to spot misinformation and (c) reduces self-reported willingness to share misinformation with others. The first two effects remain significant for at least one week after gameplay. We also find that reading real-world infographics from UNESCO improves people{\textquoteright}s ability and confidence in spotting COVID-19 misinformation (albeit with descriptively smaller effect sizes than the game). Limitations and implications for fake news interventions are discussed.},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211013868},
	author = {Melisa Basol and Jon Roozenbeek and Manon Beriche and Fatih Uenal and William P. McClanahan and Sander van der Linden}
}
@article {653592,
	title = {The Nature of Islamophobia: A Test of a Tripartite View in Five Countries},
	journal = {Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin},
	year = {2020},
	abstract = {This article provides an examination of the structure of Islamophobia across cultures. Our novel measure{\textemdash}the Tripartite Islamophobia Scale (TIS){\textemdash}embeds three theoretically and statistically grounded subcomponents of Islamophobia: anti-Muslim prejudice, anti-Islamic sentiment, and conspiracy beliefs. Across six samples (i.e., India, Poland, Germany, France, and the United States), preregistered analyses corroborated that these three subcomponents are statistically distinct. Measurement invariance analyses indicated full scalar invariance, suggesting that the tripartite understanding of Islamophobia is generalizable across cultural contexts. Furthermore, the subcomponents were partially dissociated in terms of the intergroup emotions they are predicted by as well as the intergroup outcomes they predict (e.g., dehumanization, ethnic persecution). For example, intergroup anger and disgust underpin Islamophobic attitudes, over and above the impact of fear. Finally, our results show that social dominance orientation (SDO) and ingroup identification moderate intergroup emotions and Islamophobia. We address both theoretical implications for the nature of Islamophobia and practical interventions to reduce it.},
	url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0146167220922643},
	author = {Fatih Uenal and Robin Bergh and Jim Sidanius and Zick, Andreas and Sasha Kimel and Jonas R. Kunst}
}
@report {701731,
	title = {Intersektionalit{\"a}t in Deutschland, Chancen, L{\"u}cken undHerausforderungen. },
	year = {2019},
	institution = {Center for Intersectional Justice e.V. and DeZIM e.V. Berlin},
	address = {Berlin},
	abstract = {
	Deutschland ist eine Einwanderungsgesellschaft.



	Als solche hat sie das Potenzial, die existierende Vielfalt an Erfahrungen, Pers-pektiven und Energien ihrer B{\"u}rger*innen in produktive, kreative und innovativeTaten umzusetzen und somit mit einer sich unaufhaltsam weiter globalisierendenWelt Schritt zu halten. Damit dieses Potenzial auch aktiviert werden kann, bedarfes sachlicher und innovativer Informationsgrundlagen und theoretischer Pers-pektiven, welche die mannigfaltigen Realit{\"a}ten innerhalb der Einwanderungsge-sellschaft Deutschland auch abbilden k{\"o}nnen, vorhandene Potenziale sichtbarmachen aber auch existierende Dysfunktionalit{\"a}ten erkennen und gegebenen-falls adressieren k{\"o}nnen. Die bisherige Datengrundlage (amtliche Statistiken undempirische Studien) und theoretischen Modelle, welche Potenziale und Defizitein gesellschaftlichen Institutionen und Strukturen sichtbar und erfassbar ma-chen sollen, bed{\"u}rfen daher einer innovativen Erneuerung, welche den aktuellendemographischen und biographischen Realit{\"a}ten der Einwanderungsgesellschaftgerecht werden. Die bis heute verwendete Kategorie des {\quotesinglbase}Migrationshinter -grunds{\textquoteleft} (MH) ist nicht mehr ausreichend, um die vielschichtigen und ganz unter -schiedlichen Potenziale und H{\"u}rden zu erfassen, welche Einwanderungsgesell -schaften auszeichnen. Es bedarf also zum einen neuer Perspektiven, welche dievorhandene Vielfalt und somit auch St{\"a}rke des neuen Deutschlands abbilden,und zum anderen den Mut, bestehende sozio-{\"o}konomisch-emotionale Schiefla-gen zwischen verschiedenen Bev{\"o}lkerungsgruppen neu zu denken.Das Konzept Intersektionalit{\"a}t kann hier einen wertvollen Beitrag zur Neuausrich-tung des deutschen Selbstverst{\"a}ndnisses als moderne Gesellschaft leisten. Imfolgenden Beitrag widmen sich Dr. Emilia Roig (Center for Intersectional Justice;Kapitel 1-3 \&amp; 5-6) und Dr. Fatih Uenal (DeZIM-Institut; Kapitel 4) dem Potenzial vonIntersektionalit{\"a}t, welche sowohl die gr{\"o}{\ss}eren Prozesse von Konvivialit{\"a}t und Ko-existenz erkennbar macht, ohne den Blick f{\"u}r die feinen Unterschiede innerhalbeiner Einwanderungsgesellschaft zu verlieren. Es ist dies die St{\"a}rke von Intersek -tionalit{\"a}t, sowohl das {\"U}bergeordnete und Allgemeine, als auch das Spezifischean individuellen und Gruppen-Erfahrungen, Erfahrungssystemen und Wahrneh-mungen zusammenzudenken und L{\"o}sungsvorschl{\"a}ge zu formulieren.Deutschland ist bunt und vielf{\"a}ltig. Es braucht neue und mutige Perspektiven, diediese Vielfalt denkbar und sichtbar machen.

},
	url = {https://www.intersectionaljustice.org/img/2019.09.18._cij-dezim_bericht-intersektionalit\%C3\%A4t-deutschland_ykgll2.pdf},
	author = {Emilia Roig and Fatih Uenal}
}
@article {590796,
	title = {Disentangling Islamophobia The Differential Effects of Symbolic, Realistic, and Terroristic Threat Perceptions as Mediators Between Social Dominance Orientation and Islamophobia.},
	journal = {Journal of Social and Political Psychology},
	volume = {4},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {66-90},
	abstract = {The aim of this paper is threefold. First, based on ongoing theoretical discussions on the dimensionality of Islamophobia, this study analyzes whether Islamophobia empirically constitutes a one-dimensional construct or rather a multidimensional construct consisting of anti-Muslim prejudice and anti-Islam sentiment. Second, the effects of symbolic, realistic, and terroristic (safety) threats on Islamophobia were analyzed concurrently. Finally, within the framework of the revised Integrated Threat Theory (Stephan \&amp; Renfro, 2002), and in order to test the mediating effect of threats, SDO is tested as an antecedent of perceived threat and Islamophobia. Respondents from Berlin (N = 355) participated in an online survey. The results indicate that Islamophobia empirically constitutes a two-dimensional phenomenon, consisting of anti-Muslim and anti-Islam sentiment. Whereas symbolic threat is related to both types of Islamophobia, realistic threat is associated only with anti-Muslim prejudice, and terroristic threat is associated only with anti-Islam sentiment. Finally, the results indicate that the relationship between SDO and both dimensions of Islamophobia is mediated by threats. Symbolic threats mediate the relationships between SDO and both dimensions of Islamophobia. Realistic threats mediate the relationship between SDO and anti-Muslim prejudice and terroristic threats between SDO and anti-Islam sentiment.},
	url = {https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/463},
	author = {Fatih Uenal}
}
@article {590801,
	title = {Islamophobia \&amp; Anti-Semitism. Comparing the social psychological underpinnings of Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Beliefs in Contemporary Germany.},
	journal = {Islamophobia Studies Journal},
	volume = {3},
	number = {2},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {35-55},
	abstract = {In response to critical stances voiced in regard to a comparative approach toward Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, the aim of this paper is to account for these critiques, and to statistically re-analyze the two phenomena in their structural and dispositional similarities and differences. First, an alternative perspective on Islamophobia is proposed, which differentiates between anti-Islam sentiment and anti-Muslim prejudices, and additionally includes anti-Muslim conspiracy beliefs as an integral component. Second, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic prejudices and conspiracy beliefs are then compared in their social psychological correlates. For this purpose, an online survey was conducted with young adults from Berlin (N=450). The results indicate similarities and differences in the underlying social psychological mechanisms of both phenomena. Both anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic prejudices are partially explained by a personal ideology of inequality, e.g., social dominance orientation, the belief-in-a-just-world ideology, and racism. However, regarding the conspiracy beliefs, conspiracy mentality (Bruder et al. 2013){\textemdash}a psychological construct that measurs a general propensity towards conspiratorial thinking{\textemdash}better predicted anti-Semitic conspiracy beliefs than anti-Muslim conspiracy beliefs.},
	url = {https://www.crg.berkeley.edu/crg-publications/islamophobia-studies-journal-spring-2016-volume-3-issue-2/},
	author = {Fatih Uenal}
}
@article {590791,
	title = {The {\textquotedblleft}Secret Islamization{\textquotedblright} of Europe: Exploring Integrated Threat Theory for Predicting Islamophobic Conspiracy Stereotypes},
	journal = {International Journal of Conflict and Violence},
	volume = {10},
	number = {1},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {93-108},
	abstract = {
	
		Despite any factual evidence for support, the idea of a secret "Islamization of Europe" is finding increasing support among different groups in Germany (Benz 2011; Shooman 2009; Shooman 2014). Anders Behring Breivik, who killed seventy-seven people on the 22 July 2011 massacre in Norway, was, beside other factors, motivated by the {\textquotedblleft}belief in a Muslim conspiracy to take over Europe{\textquotedblright} (Fekete 2011).
	

	
		The revised integrated threat theory (Stephan and Renfro 2002) is tested as a framework for analyzing Islamophobic conspiracy stereotypes (Kofta and Sedek 2005) in Germany. Threats (symbolic and realistic) were analyzed as mediators between different antecedents (in-group identification, ambiguity intolerance, clash of civilizations) and the dependent variable, conspiracy stereotypes. Respondents from Berlin (N = 355) participated in an online survey (Summer 2014). First, the findings indicate that higher education and political orientation towards the left are negatively related to conspiracy stereotypes and threats. Furthermore, the findings of the structural equation model indicate partial mediation via symbolic threats for clash-of-civilizations intergroup conflict and education on conspiracy stereotypes. Full mediation is reported for in-group identification and ambiguity intolerance via symbolic threats.
	

	
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},
	url = {http://ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/499},
	author = {Fatih Uenal}
}
