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Karen Phalet

Karen Phalet

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Psychology

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42
Citations
6443
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7626
National Ranking
108

Overview

Karen Phalet is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has made contributions principally within the Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Education, Social Psychology, Clinical Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their research topics cover a range of areas including Social and Intergroup Psychology, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Cultural Differences and Values, Early Childhood Education and Development, Critical Race Theory in Education, Parental Involvement in Education, and Migration, Refugees, and Integration.

Phalet's recent publications include:

  • Fitting in: How the intergroup context shapes minority acculturation and achievement (2020), European Review of Social Psychology
  • How Diversity Approaches Affect Ethnic Minority and Majority Adolescents: Teacher-Student Relationship Trajectories and School Outcomes (2020), Child Development
  • To belong or not to belong: Protecting minority engagement in the face of discrimination (2020), International Journal of Psychology
  • Socioeconomic and gender inequalities in home learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: examining the roles of the home environment, parent supervision, and educational provisions (2022), The Educational and Developmental Psychologist
  • No man is an island: Psychological underpinnings of prosociality in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak (2020), Personality and Individual Differences

Frequent co-authors in their work include Gülseli Baysu, Judit Kende, Colette van Laar, Jessie Hillekens, and Emanuele Politi.

Phalet has published frequently in journals such as the British Journal of Social Psychology, Child Development, Journal of Social Issues, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Best Publications

  • Intergenerational Transmission of Collectivism and Achievement Values in Two Acculturation Contexts The Case of Turkish Families in Germany and Turkish and Moroccan Families in the Netherlands

    Karen Phalet;Ute Schönpflug

  • Competence and morality dimensions of national and ethnic stereotypes: a study in six eastern‐European countries

    Karen Phalet;Edwin Poppe

  • Assessment in Multicultural Groups: The Role of Acculturation

    Fons J.R. Van De Vijver;Karen Phalet

  • How Future Goals Enhance Motivation and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms

    Karen Phalet;Iris Andriessen;Willy Lens

  • Associational membership and political involvement among ethnic minority groups in Brussels

    Dirk Jacobs;Karen Phalet;Marc Swyngedouw

  • Religious Identification, Beliefs, and Practices Among Turkish Belgian and Moroccan Belgian Muslims Intergenerational Continuity and Acculturative Change

    Derya Güngör;Fenella Fleischmann;Fenella Fleischmann;Karen Phalet;Karen Phalet

  • ‘Dual’ Identity as a two edged sword: Identity threat and minority school performance

    Gülseli Baysu;Karen Phalet;Rupert Brown

  • Intergenerational Transmission in Turkish Immigrant Families: Parental Collectivism, Achievement Values and Gender Differences*

    Karen Phalet;Ute Schönpflug

  • Beyond the Ethnic-Civic Dichotomy: Cultural Citizenship as a New Way of Excluding Immigrants

    Arjan Reijerse;Kaat Van Acker;Norbert Vanbeselaere;Karen Phalet

  • A Comparative Study of Turkish and Belgian Youth

    Karen Phalet;Willem Claeys

  • Measuring immigrant integration: the case of Belgium.

    Karen Phalet;Marc Swyngedouw

  • Can School Diversity Policies Reduce Belonging and Achievement Gaps Between Minority and Majority Youth? Multiculturalism, Colorblindness, and Assimilationism Assessed.

    Laura Celeste;Gülseli Baysu;Karen Phalet;Loes Meeussen

  • Personal Adjustment to Acculturative Transitions: The Turkish Experience

    Karen Phalet;Louk Hagendoorn

  • Future goal setting, task motivation and learning of minority and non-minority students in Dutch schools

    Iris Andriessen;Karen Phalet;Willy Lens

  • Old and new inequalities in educational attainment Ethnic minorities in the Belgian Census 1991—2001

    Karen Phalet;Patrick Deboosere;Vicky Bastiaenssen

  • The Effects of Immigrant Population Size, Unemployment, and Individual Characteristics on Voting for the Vlaams Blok in Flanders 1991–1999

    Nathalie Rink;Karen Phalet;Marc Swyngedouw

  • Religious identification and politicization in the face of discrimination: support for political Islam and political action among the Turkish and Moroccan second generation in Europe.

    Fenella Fleischmann;Fenella Fleischmann;Karen Phalet;Olivier Klein

  • Religion and national identification in Europe: comparing Muslim youth in Belgium, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

    Fenella Fleischmann;Karen Phalet

  • Women (Do Not) Belong Here: Gender-Work Identity Conflict among Female Police Officers

    Jenny Veldman;Loes Meeussen;Colette Van Laar;Karen Phalet

  • Identity Conflict or Compatibility: A Comparison of Muslim Minorities in Five European Cities

    Fenella Fleischmann;Karen Phalet

Frequent Co-Authors

Rupert Brown
Rupert Brown University of Sussex
Olivier Klein
Olivier Klein Université Libre de Bruxelles
Willy Lens
Willy Lens KU Leuven
Jan Kornelis Dijkstra
Jan Kornelis Dijkstra University of Groningen
Marc H. Bornstein
Marc H. Bornstein National Institutes of Health
Bart Duriez
Bart Duriez KU Leuven

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