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Internal, External, Genetic, or Cultural? Lay Theories about Racial Health Disparities Predict Perceived Threat, Adherence, and Policy Support (2023)
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Crist, J. D., Noor, M., Schlegel, R. J., Salter, P. S., Rivera, G. N., Perez, M. J., & Coger, C. (2023). Internal, External, Genetic, or Cultural? Lay Theories about Racial Health Disparities Predict Perceived Threat, Adherence, and Policy Support. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(12), Article e12896. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12896

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that Black and Latinx communities experienced a disproportionate burden of illness. The goal of this study is to investigate laypeople’s attribution of these disparities. We... Read More about Internal, External, Genetic, or Cultural? Lay Theories about Racial Health Disparities Predict Perceived Threat, Adherence, and Policy Support.

The distinct associations of ingroup attachment and glorification with responses to the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from a multilevel investigation in 21 countries (2022)
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Noor, McLamore, Q., Syropoulos, S., Leidner, B., Hirschberger, G., van Bezouw, M. J., …Zein, R. A. (2022). The distinct associations of ingroup attachment and glorification with responses to the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from a multilevel investigation in 21 countries. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(2), 992-1012. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12614

While public health crises such as the coronavirus pandemic transcend national borders, practical efforts to combat them are often instantiated at the national level. Thus, national group identities may play key roles in shaping compliance with and s... Read More about The distinct associations of ingroup attachment and glorification with responses to the coronavirus pandemic: Evidence from a multilevel investigation in 21 countries.

To Forgive Or Not To Forgive An Organization: Perceived Integrity Versus Competence Transgressions Shape Consumers’ Forgiveness Of Transgressing Organizations (2022)
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Noor, M., Chao, M. M., & Doosje, B. (2022). To Forgive Or Not To Forgive An Organization: Perceived Integrity Versus Competence Transgressions Shape Consumers’ Forgiveness Of Transgressing Organizations. Applied Psychology, 72(3), 1160-1180. https://doi.org/10.1111/apps.12428

Forgiveness can de-escalate conflicts and transform resentment into constructive responses. Although we have learned much about interpersonal and intergroup forgiveness in the last two decades (Fehr et al., 2010; Noor, 2016; Van Tongeren et al., 2014... Read More about To Forgive Or Not To Forgive An Organization: Perceived Integrity Versus Competence Transgressions Shape Consumers’ Forgiveness Of Transgressing Organizations.

Meaningless gestures or pathway to healing and reconciliation? Comparing the perspectives on political apologies in victim and non-victim communities in El Salvador, the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom (2022)
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Sagherian‐Dickey, T., Schaafsma, J., Zoodsma, M., Cho, H. J., Dinnick, I., Kim, J., …Yáñez de la Cruz, M. S. (2022). Meaningless gestures or pathway to healing and reconciliation? Comparing the perspectives on political apologies in victim and non-victim communities in El Salvador, the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(1), 414-430. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12556

Political apologies have been theorized to play an important role in healing and reconciliation processes in post-conflict settings. Whether they actually fulfil this function, however, remains unclear as the voices and perspectives of victim communi... Read More about Meaningless gestures or pathway to healing and reconciliation? Comparing the perspectives on political apologies in victim and non-victim communities in El Salvador, the Republic of Korea, and the United Kingdom.

When An Injured Group’s Socio-Economic Status Signals Forgiveness Expectancy In Perpetrators: The Moderating Role of SDO (2022)
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Noor. (2022). When An Injured Group’s Socio-Economic Status Signals Forgiveness Expectancy In Perpetrators: The Moderating Role of SDO. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000615

We investigated whether and when perpetrators might expect to be forgiven as a function of their own social dominance orientation and the injured group’s perceived socio-economic status. In a between-subjects design (N = 298), British participants im... Read More about When An Injured Group’s Socio-Economic Status Signals Forgiveness Expectancy In Perpetrators: The Moderating Role of SDO.

“Sorry for Congo, Let’s Make Amends”: Belgians’ Ideological Worldviews Predict Attitudes towards Apology and Reparation for its Colonial Past (2021)
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Noor. (2021). “Sorry for Congo, Let’s Make Amends”: Belgians’ Ideological Worldviews Predict Attitudes towards Apology and Reparation for its Colonial Past. International Review of Social Psychology, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.486

In light of the recent steps Belgium has made towards reconciling with its colonial history in Congo (e.g., the King’s letter of regret, and the removal of some colonial statues), we examined how Belgians differ in their attitudes towards an official... Read More about “Sorry for Congo, Let’s Make Amends”: Belgians’ Ideological Worldviews Predict Attitudes towards Apology and Reparation for its Colonial Past.

Needs satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multi-national study of pathways toward social change (2021)
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Noor. (2021). Needs satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multi-national study of pathways toward social change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MDNGF

What role does intergroup contact play in promoting support for social change toward greater social equality? Drawing on the needs-based model of reconciliation, we theorized that when inequality between groups is perceived as illegitimate, disadvant... Read More about Needs satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multi-national study of pathways toward social change.

Threatened Hence Justified: Jewish Israelis’ Use of Competitive Victimhood to Justify Violence Against Palestinians (2020)
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Noor. (2020). Threatened Hence Justified: Jewish Israelis’ Use of Competitive Victimhood to Justify Violence Against Palestinians. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12433

We theorized that competitive victimhood – the tendency to see one’s ingroup as having suffered more than the outgroup as a result of a prolong conflict– may function strategically as a psychological mechanism to justify violent actions against the o... Read More about Threatened Hence Justified: Jewish Israelis’ Use of Competitive Victimhood to Justify Violence Against Palestinians.

Can Psychological Interventions Improve Intergroup Attitudes Post Terror Attacks? (2020)
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Noor. (2020). Can Psychological Interventions Improve Intergroup Attitudes Post Terror Attacks?. Social Psychological and Personality Science,

This research concurrently investigated the effectiveness of three established biasreducing interventions (i.e., positive affirmation, secure attachment, and cognitive dissonance) in the wake of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks. Using frequentis... Read More about Can Psychological Interventions Improve Intergroup Attitudes Post Terror Attacks?.

A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change (2020)
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Noor. (2020). A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change. Nature Human Behaviour, 380-386. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0815-z

Beginning with the historic racial desegregation in the United States, and spreading to other parts of the world, policy makers, guided by the findings of social scientists, have advocated for increased intergroup contact (e.g., in schools and neighb... Read More about A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change.

Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Effects of Empathy and Responsibility in Muslim Leaders’ Mediated Responses to Extremist Attacks (2019)
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Noor, M. (2019). Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Effects of Empathy and Responsibility in Muslim Leaders’ Mediated Responses to Extremist Attacks. Media Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1584570

Muslim American leaders are often called upon to publicly respond to violent attacks carried out by Muslim extremists. Yet it is unclear what types of responses are most likely to satisfy non-Muslim Americans and ultimately improve attitudes toward M... Read More about Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Effects of Empathy and Responsibility in Muslim Leaders’ Mediated Responses to Extremist Attacks.

The Impact of Exposure to Media Coverage of the 2012 Paralympic Games on Mixed Physical Ability Interactions (2019)
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Noor. (2019). The Impact of Exposure to Media Coverage of the 2012 Paralympic Games on Mixed Physical Ability Interactions. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 104-120. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2387

The current work assessed the impact of the 2012 Paralympic Games on psychological factors operating during interactions between physically disabled and nondisabled group members. In a two-wave longitudinal design, the pre- to post-Paralympic increas... Read More about The Impact of Exposure to Media Coverage of the 2012 Paralympic Games on Mixed Physical Ability Interactions.

Can we forgive a militant outgroup member?: The role of perspective-taking (2018)
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Noor. (2018). Can we forgive a militant outgroup member?: The role of perspective-taking. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 246-255. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12328

Whereas previous research has commonly studied the effects of perspective-taking for harmless targets, we examined whether the effect of perspective-taking might extend to a violent outgroup target. That is, our target not only held members of the ad... Read More about Can we forgive a militant outgroup member?: The role of perspective-taking.

The social psychology of collective victimhood (2017)
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Noor. (2017). The social psychology of collective victimhood. European Journal of Social Psychology, 121 -134. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2300

Collective victimhood, which results from the experience of being targeted as members of a group, has powerful effects on individuals and groups. The focus of this Special Issue is on how people respond to collective victimhood and how these response... Read More about The social psychology of collective victimhood.

To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third-party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members? (2017)
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Noor. (2017). To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third-party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members?. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 3 - 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12148

The present research seeks to answer the question of what determines an uninvolved third party's forgiveness attitudes toward conflicting groups' violent partisan members. Specifically, Bangladeshi participants read a fictitious interview with a radi... Read More about To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third-party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members?.

Prejudice in the pub: How alcohol and ideology loosen the tongue. (2016)
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Noor, M. (2016). Prejudice in the pub: How alcohol and ideology loosen the tongue. Journal of Social Psychology, 673-679. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2016.1270890

This study (N = 124) tested the main and interactive effects of alcohol consumption, egalitarianism, and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in relation to prejudice suppression in the natural environment of a British Public House (pub). Employing a qu... Read More about Prejudice in the pub: How alcohol and ideology loosen the tongue..

Suffering need not beget suffering: Why we forgive (2016)
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Noor. (2016). Suffering need not beget suffering: Why we forgive. Current Opinion in Psychology, 100 - 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.06.013

The concept of intergroup forgiveness has gained a research momentum. Here, I examine its utility as a viable conflict resolution strategy. After advancing a more refined definition of intergroup forgiveness than had been previously proposed by resea... Read More about Suffering need not beget suffering: Why we forgive.

When group members forgive: Antecedents and consequences (2015)
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Noor. (2015). When group members forgive: Antecedents and consequences. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 577 - 588. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430215586605

Whether forgiveness is essential for intergroup reconciliation may be disputable, but its potential ability to repair human relationships following offenses committed based on group membership remains of considerable importance. The primary focus of... Read More about When group members forgive: Antecedents and consequences.

Peace vision and its socio-emotional antecedents: The role of forgiveness, trust and inclusive victim perceptions (2015)
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Noor. (2015). Peace vision and its socio-emotional antecedents: The role of forgiveness, trust and inclusive victim perceptions. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 644 - 654. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430215586604

The present study conceptualized peace vision as the view of peace as desirable, feasible, and requiring substantial concessions by both parties and examined the social-emotional factors contributing to its endorsement among Israeli Jews (N = 400). I... Read More about Peace vision and its socio-emotional antecedents: The role of forgiveness, trust and inclusive victim perceptions.

Social Identities and Intergroup Emotions: The Background of Forgiveness Attitudes and Political Reparation in Chile (2013)
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González, R., Manzi, J., & Noor, M. (2013). Social Identities and Intergroup Emotions: The Background of Forgiveness Attitudes and Political Reparation in Chile. Psykhe (Santiago), 22(2), 129-146. https://doi.org/10.7764/psykhe.22.2.575

In the context of the Chilean political reconciliation process, the present study conceptualizes and tests a meditational model that examines the relational pattern established between social identities (national and political) and attitudes toward p... Read More about Social Identities and Intergroup Emotions: The Background of Forgiveness Attitudes and Political Reparation in Chile.

Overcoming competitive victimhood and facilitating forgiveness through re-categorization into a common victim and perpetrator identity (2013)
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Noor. (2013). Overcoming competitive victimhood and facilitating forgiveness through re-categorization into a common victim and perpetrator identity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 867 -877

We argue that facilitating forgiveness among groups involved in intractable conflicts requires reducing competitive victimhood which stems from the conflicting parties' motivation to restore agency and a positive moral image. Examining novel and trad... Read More about Overcoming competitive victimhood and facilitating forgiveness through re-categorization into a common victim and perpetrator identity.

Intergroup identity perceptions and their implications for intergroup forgiveness: The Common Ingroup Identity Model and its efficacy in the field (2012)
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Noor. (2012). Intergroup identity perceptions and their implications for intergroup forgiveness: The Common Ingroup Identity Model and its efficacy in the field. https://doi.org/10.1080/03033910.2010.10446332

Three studies revisited the application of the Common Ingroup Identity Model (CIIM) to the Northern Irish conflict and shed light on the factors that potentially limit the scope of the CIIM. Study 1 (N =61) showed that both conflict protagonists unan... Read More about Intergroup identity perceptions and their implications for intergroup forgiveness: The Common Ingroup Identity Model and its efficacy in the field.

When suffering begets suffering: The Psychology of competitive victimhood between adversarial groups in violent conflicts (2012)
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Noor. (2012). When suffering begets suffering: The Psychology of competitive victimhood between adversarial groups in violent conflicts. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 351 - 374. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868312440048

Inter-group competitive victimhood (CV) describes the efforts of members of groups involved in violent conflicts to establish that their group has suffered more than their adversarial group. Such efforts contribute to conflicts’ escalation and impede... Read More about When suffering begets suffering: The Psychology of competitive victimhood between adversarial groups in violent conflicts.

Precursors and mediators of intergroup reconciliation in Northern Ireland: a new model (2008)
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Noor. (2008). Precursors and mediators of intergroup reconciliation in Northern Ireland: a new model. British Journal of Social Psychology, 481 - 495. https://doi.org/10.1348/014466607X238751

We examined social psychological factors contributing to the restoration of the intergroup relationship between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. A theoretical model of reconciliation orientation (ROM) was developed, with intergroup forg... Read More about Precursors and mediators of intergroup reconciliation in Northern Ireland: a new model.

On positive psychological outcomes; what helps groups with a history of conflict to forgive and reconcile with each other? (2008)
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Noor. (2008). On positive psychological outcomes; what helps groups with a history of conflict to forgive and reconcile with each other?. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 819 - 832. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167208315555

Three studies examined the roles of traditional and novel social psychological variables involved in intergroup forgiveness. Study 1 (N = 480) revealed that among the pro-Pinochet and the anti-Pinochet groups in Chile, forgiveness was predicted by in... Read More about On positive psychological outcomes; what helps groups with a history of conflict to forgive and reconcile with each other?.