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Maykel Verkuyten

Maykel Verkuyten

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Psychology

D-Index
88
Citations
24320
World Ranking
1052
National Ranking
60

Overview

Maykel Verkuyten is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a research portfolio primarily situated within the social sciences and psychology disciplines. Their work spans several subfields, most notably sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, education, and gender studies.

The researcher's output covers a diverse range of topics with a particular focus on social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, racial and ethnic identity research, migration and integration, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, religion and society interactions, and social and cultural dynamics.

Recent prominent publications include:

  • Tolerance and intolerance: Cultural meanings and discursive usage, 2021, Culture & Psychology
  • Right-wing political orientation, national identification and the acceptance of immigrants and minorities, 2021, Personality and Individual Differences
  • The Psychology of Intolerance: Unpacking Diverse Understandings of Intolerance, 2020, Current Directions in Psychological Science

Their frequent co-authors include Kumar Yogeeswaran, Levi Adelman, Borja Martinović, Jessica Gale, and Diana Cárdenas. These collaborations have contributed to advancing knowledge across the outlined thematic and disciplinary areas.

Maykel Verkuyten publishes extensively in key academic venues related to social and psychological research. The most common publication venues are:

  • International Journal of Intercultural Relations
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Their scholarly contributions address complex issues surrounding intercultural relations, identity, intolerance, and political orientation with empirical and theoretical approaches. The research also includes analysis of collective psychological ownership and its social implications.

Best Publications

  • The social psychology of ethnic identity

    Maykel Verkuyten

  • Ethnic Group Identification and Group Evaluation Among Minority and Majority Groups: Testing the Multiculturalism Hypothesis

    Maykel J. A. M. Verkuyten

  • Prejudice towards Muslims in The Netherlands: Testing integrated threat theory

    Karina Velasco González;Maykel Verkuyten;Jeroen Weesie;Edwin Poppe

  • National (Dis)identification and Ethnic and Religious Identity: A Study Among Turkish-Dutch Muslims

    Maykel Verkuyten;Ali Aslan Yildiz

  • School Satisfaction of Elementary School Children: The Role of Performance, Peer Relations, Ethnicity and Gender

    Maykel Verkuyten;Jochem Thijs

  • Racist victimization among children in The Netherlands : the effect of ethnic group and school

    Maykel Verkuyten;Jochem Thijs

  • Discourses about ethnic group (de‐)essentialism: Oppressive and progressive aspects

    Maykel Verkuyten

  • Perceived Discrimination and Self-Esteem Among Ethnic Minority Adolescents

    Maykel Verkuyten

  • Religious Group Identification and Inter-Religious Relations: A Study Among Turkish-Dutch Muslims

    Maykel Verkuyten

  • Life Satisfaction among Ethnic Minorities: The Role of Discrimination and Group Identification.

    M.J.A.M. Verkuyten

  • Multicultural recognition and ethnic minority rights: A social identity perspective

    Maykel Verkuyten

  • School ethnic diversity and students' interethnic relations

    Jochem Thijs;Maykel Verkuyten

  • Multiculturalism and group status: The role of ethnic identification, group essentialism and protestant ethic

    Maykel Verkuyten;Peary Brug

  • Prejudice and Self-Categorization: The Variable Role of Authoritarianism and In-Group Stereotypes:

    Maykel Verkuyten;Louk Hagendoorn

  • Multiculturalism among minority and majority adolescents in the Netherlands

    Maykel Verkuyten;Jochem Thijs

  • Support for multiculturalism and minority rights: the role of national identification and out-group threat.

    M.J.A.M. Verkuyten

  • Understanding multicultural attitudes: The role of group status, identification, friendships, and justifying ideologies

    Maykel Verkuyten;Borja Martinovic

  • Immigrants’ National Identification: Meanings, Determinants, and Consequences

    Maykel Verkuyten;Borja Martinovic

  • More than Two Decades of Changing Ethnic Attitudes in the Netherlands

    Marcel Coenders;Marcel Lubbers;Peer Scheepers;Maykel Verkuyten

  • Biculturalism among Older Children Cultural Frame Switching, Attributions, Self-Identification, and Attitudes

    Maykel Verkuyten;Katerina Pouliasi

  • Ethnic Group Identification and Group Evaluation Among Minority and Majority Groups

    Maykel J. A. M. Verkuyten

Frequent Co-Authors

Jochem Thijs
Jochem Thijs Utrecht University
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Kay Deaux
Kay Deaux New York University
Ruut Veenhoven
Ruut Veenhoven Erasmus University Rotterdam
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
Melanie Killen
Melanie Killen University of Maryland, College Park
Karen Phalet
Karen Phalet KU Leuven
Lowell Gaertner
Lowell Gaertner University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yanjun Guan
Yanjun Guan Durham University
Ying-yi Hong
Ying-yi Hong Chinese University of Hong Kong

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