Ethnocentrism—our tendency to partition the human world into in-groups and out-groups—
pervades societies around the world. Surprisingly, though, few scholars have explored its …

The events of 9/11 set in motion a massive reordering of US policy. We propose that the
American public's response to this redirection in policy derives, in part, from ethnocentrism …

Faced with a choice between John McCain and Barack Obama, voters in 2008 were swayed
by the familiar play of factors—party identification, policy preferences, and economic …

The concept of ethnocentrism was introduced by Gumplowicz in the 1870s, popularized by
Sumner in the 1900s, and first investigated psychometrically by Adorno and colleagues in …

Conceptual analysis has not been systematically implemented in psychology, and many
concepts have often been defined in different and contradictory ways. This article focuses on …

General ethnocentrism seems to be a powerful antecedent of immigration opinion, typically
displaying larger effects than economic concerns. News about immigration, however, may …

Most Republicans in a January 2020 survey agreed that “the traditional American way of life
is disappearing so fast that we may have to use force to save it.” More than 40% agreed that …

Ethnocentrism works to reinvigorate the study of ethnocentrism by reconceptualising
ethnocentrism as a social, psychological, and attitudinal construct. Using a broad …

In addition to their obvious roles in American politics, race and gender also work in hidden
ways to profoundly influence the way we think—and vote—about a vast array of issues that …

Abramowitz begins his book by describing the polarizing presidential elections of 2004 and
2008. After winning reelection in 2004, George W. Bush made only perfunctory efforts to …