Nationalism and Justice for Social Out-groups

This book details a social psychological study of prejudice and moral exclusion. The author investigated whether participants, 47 non-Muslim U.S. citizens enrolled at a Midwestern university, considered Muslim Americans to be within their scope of justice, and whether principles of fairness, restitution, and corrective intervention would be applied to a stimulus Muslim family. Only about one-third of the sample indicated that the Muslim family fell within their scope of justice. Open-ended responses yielded three patterns: (1) threat and revenge toward the out-group; (2) concern with the rights of out-group members; and (3) disconnection from the out-group, along with ambivalence about justice issues. Although explicitly racist statements were detected, so too was a recognition of common humanity with out-group members.

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Dr. Chris L. S. Coryn is an Assistant Professor in Evaluation, Measurement, and Research and Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Evaluation Program at Western Michigan University.