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When Might Heterosexual Men Be Passive or Compassionate Toward Gay Victims of Hate Crime? Integrating the Bystander and Social Loafing Explanations (2019)
Journal Article
Owuamalam, C. K., & Matos, A. S. (2020). When Might Heterosexual Men Be Passive or Compassionate Toward Gay Victims of Hate Crime? Integrating the Bystander and Social Loafing Explanations. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(5), 1693-1709. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01592-y

Compassionate feelings for people who are victimized because of their perceived sexual deviance (e.g., gay men) may be incompatible with support for heterosexual norms among heterosexual men. But, indifference (or passivity) toward such victims could... Read More about When Might Heterosexual Men Be Passive or Compassionate Toward Gay Victims of Hate Crime? Integrating the Bystander and Social Loafing Explanations.

Do humans possess an autonomous system justification motivation? A Pupillometric test of the strong system justification thesis (2019)
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Owuamalam, C. K., & Spears, R. (2020). Do humans possess an autonomous system justification motivation? A Pupillometric test of the strong system justification thesis. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 86, Article 103897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103897

To investigate the existence of an autonomous system justification motive that guides human behavior, we tested the dissonance-inspired strong system-justification thesis: that the cognitive effort expended to justify societal systems on which people... Read More about Do humans possess an autonomous system justification motivation? A Pupillometric test of the strong system justification thesis.

Do egalitarians always help the disadvantaged more than the advantaged? Testing a value‐norm conflict hypothesis in Malaysia (2018)
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Owuamalam, C. K., & Matos, A. S. (2019). Do egalitarians always help the disadvantaged more than the advantaged? Testing a value‐norm conflict hypothesis in Malaysia. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 22(2), 151-162. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12351

Do egalitarians always express greater compassion towards the disadvantaged than towards the advantaged? A closer look at existing scholarship on the topic suggests that they likely do. Here, we investigated whether such tendency is also apparent wit... Read More about Do egalitarians always help the disadvantaged more than the advantaged? Testing a value‐norm conflict hypothesis in Malaysia.

On the psychological barriers to the workplace: When and why metastereotyping undermines employability beliefs of women and ethnic minorities. (2014)
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Owuamalam, C. K., & Zagefka, H. (2014). On the psychological barriers to the workplace: When and why metastereotyping undermines employability beliefs of women and ethnic minorities. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 20(4), 521-528. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037645

We investigated the effect of beliefs about how one expects one’s group to be viewed by a dominant outgroup (i.e. meta-stereotypes) on disadvantaged group members’ employability beliefs. Grounded in the research on stereotype threat, we hypothesised... Read More about On the psychological barriers to the workplace: When and why metastereotyping undermines employability beliefs of women and ethnic minorities..

Why Do Members of Disadvantaged Groups Strike Back at Perceived Negativity Towards the In‐group? (2013)
Journal Article
Owuamalam, C., Issmer, C., Zagefka, H., Klaßen, M., & Wagner, U. (2014). Why Do Members of Disadvantaged Groups Strike Back at Perceived Negativity Towards the In‐group?. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 24(3), 249-264. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2165

Against the background of riots in communities across London in 2011, this paper examines the implications of negative meta-stereotypes on stigmatized group members' reactions towards members of privileged out-groups within their communities. We hypo... Read More about Why Do Members of Disadvantaged Groups Strike Back at Perceived Negativity Towards the In‐group?.

The effect of metastereotyping on judgements of higher-status outgroups when reciprocity and social image improvement motives collide. (2012)
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Owuamalam, C. K., Tarrant, M., Farrow, C. V., & Zagefka, H. (2013). The effect of metastereotyping on judgements of higher-status outgroups when reciprocity and social image improvement motives collide. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science, 45(1), 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0030012

Two experiments examined the effect of metastereotype valence on high and low identifiers' judgments of an outgroup. As high identifiers are strongly emotionally invested in the ingroup, we expected that such group members would feel angry when they... Read More about The effect of metastereotyping on judgements of higher-status outgroups when reciprocity and social image improvement motives collide..

We'll never get past the glass ceiling! Meta‐stereotyping, world‐views and perceived relative group‐worth (2012)
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Owuamalam, C., & Zagefka, H. (2013). We'll never get past the glass ceiling! Meta‐stereotyping, world‐views and perceived relative group‐worth. British Journal of Psychology, 104(4), 543-562. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12006

This article examines the implications of perceived negativity from members of a dominant outgroup on the world views and perceived relative group worth of members of disadvantaged groups. We hypothesized that concerns about the negative opinions a d... Read More about We'll never get past the glass ceiling! Meta‐stereotyping, world‐views and perceived relative group‐worth.

Downplaying a compromised social image: The effect of metastereotype valence on social identification (2011)
Journal Article
Owuamalam, C. K., & Zagefka, H. (2011). Downplaying a compromised social image: The effect of metastereotype valence on social identification. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41(4), 528-537. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.805

This research examined the prediction that group members' levels of identification with the in-group would be influenced by the valence of salient metastereotypes. Specifically, we expected those group members who activate negative metastereotypes to... Read More about Downplaying a compromised social image: The effect of metastereotype valence on social identification.