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Group-Focused Enmity: Prevalence, Correlations and Causes of Prejudices in Europe

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The present chapter builds upon European and North American traditions in the study of racism, ethnocentrism and prejudice. In the tradition of studies in prejudice, Social Identity, Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) and Authoritarianism, the chapter profiles a new concept of antagonism towards out-groups, a syndrome of Group-Focused Enmity (GFE; Heitmeyer, 2002; Zick et al., 2008, 2011). We will examine patterns of prejudice in Europe, discussing the concept and then present an empirical test of the interrelatedness of different types of prejudice. We report on the prevalence of different types of prejudice and test a range of factors commonly cited to explain the devaluation of out-groups. Our data on prejudice towards immigrants, Jews, Muslims, ethnic minorities, women, homosexual and homeless people as well as people with disabilities was collected in a cross-cultural European survey conducted in 2008 in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Portugal. This approach offers a new understanding of the facets and roots of prejudices in Europe at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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  1. Beate Küpper
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  1. Department of Political Science, Huron University College, Canada

    Paul Nesbitt-Larking

  2. Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden

    Catarina Kinnvall

  3. Department of Politics, University of Surrey, UK

    Tereza Capelos

  4. Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, The Netherlands

    Henk Dekker

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Küpper, B., Zick, A. (2014). Group-Focused Enmity: Prevalence, Correlations and Causes of Prejudices in Europe. In: Nesbitt-Larking, P., Kinnvall, C., Capelos, T., Dekker, H. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology. Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-29118-9_14

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