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The manuscript led by amazing @fmsmallfield.bsky.social is a part of the special issue on "Double Standards in Migration, Ethnicity, and Intergroup Relations".

Brought to you also by @arothers.bsky.social and colleagues 😎

In any case, further research is warranted to figure out what is going on (no exception to the rule "non-significant results push science further")
One thing that is consistent across studies & contexts is the role of perception of similarity and threat: spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Not the findings researchers usually like to get 😅 but I loved it! Although it was difficult to explain, it made us think hard about other potential factors, such as context sensitivity and timings of data collection.

What did we find? Well, it's complicated 😄 We found one consistency: there is a selective solidarity effect - Germans express more solidarity with Ukrainian than Afghan, Syrian and Eritrean refugees. But! We found inconsistencies in the moderating roles of ideology and glorification.

Stay tuned for upcoming qualitative findings on social representations of Europe, along with more direct measures of their impact on relevant outcomes 😉

This neglects the actual diversity of Europe and carries significant consequences at societal, political, and geopolitical levels.
This study, that started with my annoyance with people in Germany talking of Europe but never meaning my own country 🙂was a first step 👇

We offer a social-psychological explanation of this mechanism by drawing on the ingroup projection model, demonstrating that "Europe" is predominantly defined in Western European terms—thereby marginalizing those who do not align with this prototype. 👇

Critical scholars (especially in critical European studies) have increasingly pointed to the issues of othering of the East (and Southeast) and consequences this neocolonial approach to defining spaces and belonging has. 👇