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PUBLICATIONS

Verkuyten, M., Adelman, L., & Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). Intolerance of transgressive protest actions: The differential roles of deontological and utilitarian morality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

*Chivers, E., Yogeeswaran, K., Zubielevitch, E., & Sibley, C. (in press). Change in weight-based bias over a decade: A longitudinal nationally representative survey. Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific.

Verkuyten, M., Schlette, A., Adelman, L., & Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). Deliberative thinking increases tolerance of minority group practices: Testing a dual-process model of tolerance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

*Byrne, K., Yogeeswaran, K., Dorahy, M., Gale, J., Afzali, U., Bulbulia, J., & Sibley, C. (in press). Psychological impact of far-right terrorism against Muslim minorities on national distress, community, and wellbeing. Scientific Reports.

Hobbs, M., Milfont, T., Marek, L., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C. (in press). The environment an adult resides within is associated with their health behaviours, mental and physical health outcomes: a nationwide geospatial study. Social Sciences and Medicine.

Verkuyten, M., Adelman, L., & Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). Does deliberative thinking increase tolerance? Political tolerance toward individuals with dual citizenship. Social Cognition.

 

*Dangubic, M., Yogeeswaran, K., Verkuyten, M., & Sibley, C. (in press). The rejection and acceptance of Muslim minority practices: A person centered approach. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.

*Wang, M., Yogeeswaran, K., Sivaram, S., & Nash, K. (in press). Examining spread of emotional political content among Democratic and Republican candidates during the 2018 US Midterm elections. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communication. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00987-4

Verkuyten, M., Gale, J., Kollar, R., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2022). Right-wing political orientation, national identification and the acceptance of immigrants and minorities. Personality and Individual Differences.

Van Bavel, J., Cichocka, A., Capraro, V., Sjastad, H., Nezlek, J., …Yogeeswaran, K., Ziemer, C., Zwaan, R., & Boggio, P. (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic: Results from 67 nations. Nature Communications.

Adelman, L., Verkuyten, M., Cardenas, D., & Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). On a slippery slope to intolerance: Individual difference in slippery slope beliefs predict outgroup negativity. Journal of Research in Personality.

 

Verkuyten, M., Schlette, A., Adelman, L., & Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). With rhyme and reason: Recognizing reasons for disliked practices increases tolerance. British Journal of Social Psychology.

Adelman, L., Verkuyten, M., Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). Distinguishing between active and passive tolerance: Understanding its prevalence and the role of moral concern. Political Psychology.

Dorahy, M., *Schultz, A., *Wooller, M., Clearwater, K., & Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). Acute shame in response to dissociative detachment: Evidence from non-clinical and traumatized samples. Cognition and Emotion.

Verkuyten, M., Adelman, L. & Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). Tolerance as forbearance: Overcoming intuitive versus deliberative objections to cultural, religious and ideological differences. Psychological Review. DOI: 10.1037/rev0000228

Yogeeswaran, K., Gale, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2021). Interculturalism as a strategy to manage diversity: Moving psychological research beyond colorblindness and multiculturalism. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 15(10), e12640. DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12640

Adelman, L., Verkuyten, M., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2021). Moralization and moral trade-offs explain (in)tolerance of Muslim minority behaviors. European Journal of Social Psychology.

Satherley, N., Yogeeswaran, K., Osborne, D., Shanaah, S., & Sibley, C. (in press). Investigating the effects of right-wing terrorism on government satisfaction: A time course analysis of the 2019 Christchurch terror attack. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. DOI: 10.1080/1057610X.2021.1913819

Yogeeswaran, K., Adelman, L., & Verkuyten, M. (2021). The U.S. needs tolerance more than unity. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-u-s-needs-tolerance-more-than-unity/

*Cvetkovska, S., Verkuyten, M., Adelman, L., & Yogeeswaran, K. (in press). Being tolerated: Implications for well-Being among ethnic minorities. British Journal of Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12492

'Yogeeswaran, K., 'Nash, K., *Jia, H., Adelman, L., & Verkuyten, M. (in press). Intolerant of being tolerant? Examining the impact of intergroup toleration on relative left frontal activity and outgroup attitudes. Current Psychology. DOI: 10.1007/s12144-020-01290-2

' indicates shared first authorship

Shanaah, S., Yogeeswaran, K., Greaves, L., Bulbulia, J., Osborne, D., Afzali, M. U., & Sibley, C. (in press). Hate begets warmth? The impact of an anti-Muslim terrorist attack on public attitudes toward Muslims. Terrorism and Political Violence. DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2021.1877673

Yogeeswaran, K., & Verkuyten, M. (in press). The political psychology of national identity. In D. Osborne & C. Sibley (Eds.), Handbook of Political Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Yogeeswaran, K., Verkuyten, M., & *Ealam, B. (in press). A way forward? The impact of interculturalism on intergroup relations in culturally diverse nations. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. DOI: 10.1177/1368430220918651

Milfont, T., Osborne, D., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C. (in press). The role of national identity in pro-environmental actions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 72. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101522

Gale, J., Yogeeswaran, K., & Verkuyten, M. (2021). Bridging (identification) divides: Ethnic minority endorsement of new diversity ideologies. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 81, 121-130. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.01.007

Devos, T., Sadler, M., Perry, D., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2021). Temporal fluctuations in context ethnic diversity over three decades predict implicit national inclusion of Asian Americans. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24(1), 3-25. DOI: 10.1177/1368430219887440

Sibley, C., *Afzali, M., *Satherley, N., *Ejova, A., *Stronge, S., Yogeeswaran, K., Grimshaw, M., Hawi, D., … Bulbulia, J. (2020). Prejudice toward Muslims in New Zealand: Insights from the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Survey. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 49, 48-72.

Verkuyten, M., Adelman, L., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2020). The psychology of intolerance: Unpacking diverse understandings of intolerance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(5), 467-472. DOI: 10.1177/0963721420924763

*Andrews, N., Yogeeswaran, K., *Wang, M., Nash, K., Hawi, D., & Sibley, C. (2020). Is social media use changing who we are? Examining the bidirectional relationship between personality and social media use. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 23(11), 752-760. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2019.0744

Verkuyten, M., Yogeeswaran, K., & Adelman, L. (2020).  The Negative implications of being tolerated: Tolerance from the target’s perspective. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15(3), 544-561. DOI: 10.1177/1745691619897974

Verkuyten, M., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2020). Interculturalism and acceptance of minority groups: The moderating role of political ideology. Social Psychology, 51(2), 135-140. DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000404

Devos, T., Yogeeswaran, K., Milojev, P., & Sibley, C. (2020). Conceptions of national identity and opposition to bicultural policies in New Zealand: A comparison of majority and minority perspectives. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 78, 33-42. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2020.04.004

Verkuyten, M., Yogeeswaran, K., *Mepham, K., & *Sprong, S. (2020). Interculturalism: A new diversity ideology with interrelated components of dialogue, unity, and identity flexibility. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(3), 505-519. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2628

Verkuyten, M., Yogeeswaran, K., & Adelman, L. (2020). Tolerance and prejudice-reduction: Two ways of improving intergroup relations. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50(2), 239-255. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2624

Verkuyten, M., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2020). Cultural diversity and its implications for intergroup relations. Current Opinion in Psychology. 32, 1-5. DOI: 10.1016/j.coppsyc.2019.06.010

  

*Wang, M., Yogeeswaran, K., *Andrews, N., Hawi, D., & Sibley, C. (2019). How common is cyberbullying? Exploring gender, ethnic, and age differences in the prevalence of cyberbullying. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 22(11), 736-741. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2019.0146

Stronge, S., *Mok, T., *Ejova, A., *Lee, C., *Zuielevitch, E., Yogeeswaran, K., Hawi, D., Osborne, D., Bulbulia, J., & Sibley, C. (2019). Social media is (weakly) related to psychological distress. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 22(9), 604-609. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2019.0176

Nash, K. *Johansson, A., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2019). Social media approval reduces distress for people high in narcissism: Electrophysiological evidence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13, 292. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00292

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*Satherley, N., Yogeeswaran, K., Osborne, D., & Sibley, C. (2019). Differentiating between pure patriots and nationalistic patriots: A model of national attachment profiles and their socio-political attitudes. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 72, 13-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.intrel.2019.06.005

Sainudiin, R., Yogeeswaran, K., Nash, K., & *Sahioun, R. (2019). Characterizing the Twitter networks of prominent politicians and SPLC-defined hate groups in the 2016 US Election. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 9. DOI: 10.1007/s13278-019-0567-9

Sibley, C., Bergh, R., *Satherley, N., Osborne, D., Milojev, P., Greaves, L., *Huang, Y., *Townrow, C., *Faapoi, A., Yogeeswaran, K., Hawi, D., & Duckitt, J. (2019). Profiling authoritarian leaders and followers. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology. 26(3), 1-17. DOI: 10.4473/TPM

*Addison, A., Yogeeswaran, K., & Bartneck, C. (2019). Robots can be more than Black and White: Understanding Racial Bias toward Robots. In Proceedings for the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society, Hawaii, USA, 493-498. January 28-29, 2019. DOI: 10.1145/3306618.3314272

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Yogeeswaran, K., *Afzali, M., *Andrews, N., *Chivers, E., *Wang, M., Devos, T., & Sibley, C. (2019). Exploring New Zealand national identity and its importance for attitudes toward Muslims and diversity. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 48(1). [Rapid Response Issue on March 15 Terrorist Attacks].

Osborne, D., *Satherley, N., Yogeeswaran, K., Hawi, D., & Sibley, C. (2019). White nationalism and multiculturalism support: Investigating the interactive effects of White identity and national attachment on support for multiculturalism. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 48(1). [Rapid Response Issue on March 15 Terrorist Attacks].

*Hirsch, M., Verkuyten, M., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2019). To accept or not to accept:  Level of moral concern impacts on tolerance of Muslim minority practices. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58(1), 196-210. DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12284

Adelman, L., Yogeeswaran, K., & Lickel, B. (2019). They’re all the same, sometimes: Prejudicial attitudes toward Muslims influence motivated judgments of entitativity and collective responsibility for an individual’s actions. Journal of Experimental Social

Psychology, 80, 31-38. DOI: 10.106/j.jesp.2018.10.002

Verkuyten, M., Yogeeswaran, K., & Adelman, L. (2019). Intergroup toleration and its implications for culturally diverse nations. Social Issues and Policy Review, 13(1). DOI: 10.1111/sipr.12051

*Satherley, N., Yogeeswaran, K., Osborne, D., & Sibley, C. (2018). If they say ‘yes’, we say ‘no’: Partisan cues increase polarization over national symbols. Psychological Science, 29(12), 1996-2009. DOI: 10.1177/0956797619905420

*Davies, T., Yogeeswaran, K., Verkuyten, M., & Loughnan, S. (2018). From humanitarian aid to humanization: when outgroup, but not ingroup, helping increases humanization. PLOS one, 13(11): e0207343. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207343

Sainudiin, R., Yogeeswaran, K., Nash, K., *Sahioun, R. (2018). Rejecting the Null Hypothesis of Apathetic Retweeting of US Politicians and SPLC-defined Hate Groups in the 2016 US Presidential Election. Proceedings for the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Barcelona, Spain, August 29-31, 2018. DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2018.8508555

*Andrews, N., Yogeeswaran, K., Walker, M., & Hewstone, M. (2018). Effect of valenced vicarious online contact on outgroup prejudice and perceived outgroup variability: A study of online poker. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 48(10), 571-581. DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12548

Yogeeswaran, K., Verkuyten, M., Osborne, D., & Sibley, C. (2018). ‘I have a dream” of a colorblind nation’? Examining the relationship between colorblindness, system justification, and support for policies that redress inequalities. Journal of Social Issues, 74(2), 282-298. DOI: 10.1111/josi.12269

Bartneck, C., Yogeeswaran, K., Ser, Q., Woodward, G., Sparrow, R., Wang, S., & Eyssel, F. (2018).  Robots and racism. In Proceedings of 2018 ACM/ICEEE International Conference in Human-Robot Interaction, Chicago, IL, USA, March 5-8, 2018 (HRI '18).  DOI: 10.1145/3171221.3171260

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Nash, K., *Lea, J., *Davies, T., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2018). The bionic blues: Robot rejection lowers self-esteem. Computers in Human Behavior. 78, 59-63. DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2017.09.018

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*McKeogh, K., Dorahy, M., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2018). Activation of shame following dissociation in the context of relationships. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 59, 48-55. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2017.11.001

Yogeeswaran, K., *Davies, T., & Sibley, C. (2017). The Janus-faced nature of colorblindness: Social dominance orientation moderates the relationship between colorblind beliefs and outgroup attitudes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47(4), 509-516. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp2225

Osborne, D., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C. (2017). Culture-specific ideologies undermine collective action support: Examining the legitimizing effects of post-colonial belief systems. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 20(3), 333-349. doi: 10.1177/1368430216682352.

Dorahy, M. J., *McKendry, H., *Scott, A., Yogeeswaran, K., Martens, A., & Hanna, D. (2017). Reactive dissociative experiences in response to acute increases in shame feelings. Behavior Research and Therapy, 89, 75-85. DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2016.11.007

+Zlotowski, J., +Yogeeswaran, K., & Bartneck, C. (2017). Can we control it? Robot autonomy impacts both realistic and identity threat to humans and promotes opposition to robotics. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 100, 48-54. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2016.12.008

+ indicates that both authors contributed equally

Verkuyten, M., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2017). The social psychology of intergroup toleration: A roadmap for theory and research. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 21, 72-96. DOI: 10.1177/1088868316640974

+ Awarded the 2017 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

+Yogeeswaran, K., +Zlotowski, J., *Livingstone, M., Bartneck, C., & Ishiguro, H. (2016). The interactive effects of robot anthropomorphism and robot ability on perceived threat and support for robotics research. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 5, 29-47. DOI:10.5898/JHRI.5.2.Yogeeswaran 

+Indicates that both authors contributed equally

Yogeeswaran, K., Devos, T., & Nash, K. (2017). Understanding the nature, measurement, and utility of implicit intergroup biases. In C. G. Sibley & F. K. Barlow (Eds.) Handbook of Psychology of Prejudice (pp. 241-266). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

*Zdrenka, M., Yogeeswaran, K., Stronge, S., & Sibley, C. (2015). Ethnic and national attachment as predictors of wellbeing among New Zealand Europeans, Maori, Asians, and Pacific Nation peoples. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 49, 114-120. DOI:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.07.003

Osborne, D., Yogeeswaran, K., & Sibley, C. (2015). The hidden consequences of political efficacy: Testing an efficacy-apathy model. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 21(4), 533-540. DOI: 10.1037/cdp0000029.

*Hsueh, M., Yogeeswaran, K., & Malinen, S. (2015). ‘Leave your comment below’: Can biased online comments influence our own prejudicial attitudes and behaviors? Human Communication Research, 41(4), 557-576. DOI: 10.1111/hcre.12059.

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*Zlotowski, J., Proudfoot, D., Yogeeswaran, K., & Bartneck, C. (2015). Anthropomorphism: Opportunities and challenges in Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 7, 347-360. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-014-0267-6

Yogeeswaran. K., & Dasgupta, N. (2014). Conceptions of national identity in a globalized world: Antecedents and consequences. European Review of Social Psychology, 25, 189-227. doi:10.1080/10463283.2014.972081

+ Awarded Honorable Mention for the 2016 Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)

Yogeeswaran, K., *Adelman, L., Parker, M., & Dasgupta, N. (2014). In the eyes of the beholder: National identification predicts differential reactions to ethnic identity expressions. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20, 362-369. doi:10.1037/a0035323

Yogeeswaran, K., & Dasgupta, N. (2014). The devil is in the details: Abstract versus concrete construals of multiculturalism differentially impact intergroup relations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 106, 772-789. doi: 10.1037/a0035830

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Yogeeswaran, K., Dasgupta, N., & *Gomez, C. (2012). A new American dilemma: The effect of ethnic identification and public service on the national inclusion of ethnic minorities. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 691-705. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.1894

Yogeeswaran, K., Dasgupta, N., *Adelman, L., *Eccleston, A., & Parker, M. (2011). To be or not to be (ethnic): Public vs. private expressions of ethnic identification differentially impact national inclusion of White and non-White ethnic groups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 908-914. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.010

Butz, D., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2011). A new threat in the air: Macroeconomic threat increases prejudice against Asian Americans. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 47, 22-27. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2010.07.014

Dasgupta, N., & Yogeeswaran, K. (2011). Obama-Nation? Implicit beliefs about American nationality and the possibility of redefining who counts as ‘truly’ American. In G. Parks and M. Hughey (Eds.) The Obamas and a Post-Racial America? London, UK: Oxford University Press.

Yogeeswaran, K., & Dasgupta, N. (2010). Will the “real” American please stand up? The effect of implicit national prototypes on discriminatory behavior and judgments. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36, 1332-1345. doi: 10.1177/0146167210380928

Kang, J., Dasgupta, N., Yogeeswaran, K., & Blasi, G. (2010). Are ideal litigators White? Measuring the myth of colorblindness. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 7, 886-915. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-1461.2010.01199.x

*Indicates student author

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