The goal of this study is to examine two main topics. The first is to identify what shapes Poles views on Ukrainian and Middle Eastern immigrants, including their support for policies, helping behaviors toward outgroups, and levels of tolerance and acceptance. The second is to understand the factors that predict support for pro military policies and willingness to engage in extreme action.
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Zafer Özkan, Małgorzata Kossowska, Anna Potoczek
The goal of this study is to examine two main topics. The first is to identify what shapes Poles views on Ukrainian and Middle Eastern immigrants, including their support for policies, helping behaviors toward outgroups, and levels of tolerance and acceptance. The second is to understand the factors that predict support for pro military policies and willingness to engage in extreme action.
The study draws on perspectives such as intergroup contact, identity fusion, and intergroup threat theory, and builds on my previous work on contact, group identification, and solidarity. Placing this research in the Polish context is especially important because the large arrival of Ukrainians and the rejection of Middle Eastern immigrants create a unique political environment for testing the social and psychological bases of these views.
The project also investigates how identification processes relate to support for military action and how fear of a possible war may shape these relationships. This research uses a four wave longitudinal design, and all four waves of data have already been collected, allowing for a strong test of changes and predictors over time.
