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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.

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*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.

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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.

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*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.

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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.

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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.

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*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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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

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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

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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/

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*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

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'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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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*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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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*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].

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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].

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*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

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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

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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

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*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

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*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

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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

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*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

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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

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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

^ Featured in Mashable

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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+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

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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)

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+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

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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.

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*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

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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.

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*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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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