Browsing by Author "Jaspal, Rusi"
Now showing items 1-20 of 101
-
Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Iran
Jaspal, Rusi (Article)Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism constitute two important ideological building blocks of the Islamic Republic of Iran, yet there is no existing research into the psychosocial motives underlying the institutional manifestation ... -
Anti-Zionism and the Iranian Press
Jaspal, Rusi (Article)Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, anti-Zionism has remained an important ideological building block of the Islamic Republic of Iran. This paper examines the manifestation of anti-Zionism in the English-language Iranian ... -
Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the British Pakistani Muslim community
Jaspal, Rusi (Book chapter)Antisemitism is often described as an irrational, age-old prejudice that must be eradicated, while in many social and political contexts anti-Zionism tends to be discussed in terms of a legitimate stance on Israel, a ... -
“Arabic is the language of the Muslims - that’s how it was supposed to be”: exploring language and religious identity through reflective accounts from young British-born Asians.
Jaspal, Rusi; Coyle, Adrian (Article)This study explores how a group of young British-born South Asians understood and defined their religious and linguistic identities, focusing upon the role played by heritage languages and liturgical languages and by ... -
Arranged Marriage, Identity and Psychological Wellbeing among British Asian Gay Men
Jaspal, Rusi (Article)The cultural expectation of an arranged heterosexual marriage poses social and psychological challenges for British Asian gay men. This article examines the diary accounts of twelve British Asian gay men concerning their ... -
The Attitudes toward Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Scale: Development and Validation
Jaspal, Rusi; Lopes, Barbara; Maatouk, Ismael (Article)PrEP is a novel, clinically effective biomedical HIV prevention tool but it has not met with widespread public acceptance. In this article, the results of a study designed to develop a scale for measuring attitudes toward ... -
British Sikh Identity and the Struggle for Distinctiveness and Continuity
Jaspal, Rusi (Article)Sikhs constitute a high proportion of the ethnic minority population in Britain. Yet, social psychologists have largely neglected this demographically important religious group, leaving much of the theorising to anthropologists ... -
Caste, social stigma and identity processes
Jaspal, Rusi (Article)Caste persists as an important socio-psychological phenomenon in many spheres of Indian social life and particularly within village contexts. It is argued that socio-psychological insights into caste identity and caste- ... -
Climate change and 'climategate' in online reader comments: a mixed methods study
Koteyko, Nelya; Jaspal, Rusi; Nerlich, Brigitte (Article)Climate change has rarely been out of the public spotlight in the first decade of this century. The high-profile international meetings and controversies such as ‘climategate’ have highlighted the fact that it is as much ... -
The Construction of British National Identity among British South Asians
Jaspal, Rusi; Cinnirella, Marco (Article)This paper explores the social psychological aspects of British national identifica- tion among British South Asians, which constitutes the largest ethnic minority group in Britain. Identity process theory can elucidate ... -
The construction of ethnic identity: insights from identity process theory
Jaspal, Rusi; Cinnirella, Marco (Article)Ethnicity has received much empirical and theoretical attention in the social sciences. Yet, it has scarcely been explored in terms of its relationship with the motivational principles of identity. Here it is argued that ... -
Contesting Science by Appealing to its Norms: Readers Discuss Climate Science in The Daily Mail.
Jaspal, Rusi; Nerlich, Brigitte; Koteyko, Nelya (Article)This study examines the rhetorical aspects of social contestation of climate change in reader comments published in the Daily Mail, subsequent to climategate. The following themes are reported: (1) denigration of climate ... -
Coping With Perceived Abusive Supervision: The Role of Paranoia
Lopes, Barbara; Jaspal, Rusi; Kamau, Caroline (Article)Two studies (a cross-sectional survey of 90 UK workers and an experiment with 100 UK workers) examined the cognitive and behavioral effects of abusive supervision. Both studies confirmed the hypothesis that workers who ... -
Coping with perceived ethnic prejudice on the gay scene
Jaspal, Rusi (Article)There has been only cursory research into the sociological and psychological aspects of ethnic/racial discrimination among ethnic minority gay and bisexual men, and none that focuses specifically upon British ethnic minority ... -
Coping with potentially incompatible identities: Accounts of religious, ethnic, and sexual identities from British Pakistani men who identify as Muslim and gay
Jaspal, Rusi; Cinnirella, Marco (Article)This study explores how a group of young British Muslim gay men (BMGM) of Pakistani background in non-gay affirmative religious contexts understood and defined their sexual, religious, and ethnic identities, focusing upon ...