The Moderating Role of Psychological Essentialism in The Link Between Threat to Symbolic Purity and Exclusionary Attitudes Toward Foreigners

Purity is a component of morality, which relates to perceptions of cleanliness (i.e., physical aspect) and divinity (i.e., symbolic aspect). Purity violations threaten one’s traditional values and beliefs and motivate people to recover purity by avoiding something atypical. Like the physical aspect...

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Published in:	Studia Psychologica
Main Authors:	Akiko Matsuo, Hideya Kitamura, Shin-ichiro Kumagaya
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Slovak Academy of Sciences, Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences 2025-06-01
Subjects:	morality culture psychological essentialism purity exclusion
Online Access:	https://journals.savba.sk/index.php/studiapsychologica/article/view/3248