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Overview

Nour Kteily is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Gender Studies, and Safety Research.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Gender Diversity and Inequality

Frequent publication venues for Kteily include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General
  • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Selected recent papers by Nour Kteily feature a range of topics and venues:

  • Intergroup Contact Reduces Dehumanization and Meta-Dehumanization: Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Quasi-Experimental Evidence From 16 Samples in Five Countries (2020, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin)
  • Ideology selectively shapes attention to inequality (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity (2024, Science)
  • The role of group-based egalitarianism in collective action (2020, Current Opinion in Psychology)
  • Blatant dehumanization in the mind's eye: Prevalent even among those who explicitly reject it? (2020, Journal of Experimental Psychology General)

Their frequent coauthors include Arnold K. Ho, Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington, Kurt Gray, Frank Kachanoff, and Emile Bruneau.

Best Publications

  • The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO₇ scale.

    Arnold K. Ho;Jim Sidanius;Nour Sami Kteily;Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington

  • The ascent of man: Theoretical and empirical evidence for blatant dehumanization.

    Nour S. Kteily;Emile Bruneau;Adam Waytz;Sarah Cotterill

  • Social Dominance Orientation Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes

    Arnold K. Ho;Jim Sidanius;Felicia Pratto;Shana Levin

  • They see us as less than human: Metadehumanization predicts intergroup conflict via reciprocal dehumanization.

    Nour Kteily;Gordon Hodson;Emile Bruneau

  • Diversity policy, social dominance, and intergroup relations: predicting prejudice in changing social and political contexts.

    Serge Guimond;Richard J Crisp;Pierre De Oliveira;Rodolphe Kamiejski

  • Backlash: The Politics and Real-World Consequences of Minority Group Dehumanization

    Nour Kteily;Emile Bruneau

  • You're inferior and not worth our concern: the interface between empathy and social dominance orientation.

    Jim Sidanius;Nour Kteily;Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington;Arnold K Ho

  • Social Dominance Theory: Explorations in the Psychology of Oppression

    Jim Sidanius;Sarah Cotterill;Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington;Nour Kteily

  • Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice

    Shana Levin;Miriam Matthews;Serge Guimond;James Sidanius

  • Social dominance orientation: Cause or 'mere effect'? Evidence for SDO as a causal predictor of prejudice and discrimination against ethnic and racial outgroups

    Nour S. Kteily;James Sidanius;Shana Levin

  • Darker Demons of Our Nature: The Need to (Re)Focus Attention on Blatant Forms of Dehumanization

    Nour Sami Kteily;Emile Bruneau

  • A Psychological Profile of the Alt-Right:

    Patrick S. Forscher;Nour S. Kteily

  • Living under threat: Mutual threat perception drives anti-Muslim and anti-Western hostility in the age of terrorism

    Milan Obaidi;Jonas R. Kunst;Nour Kteily;Lotte Thomsen

  • Hierarchy in the eye of the beholder: (Anti-)egalitarianism shapes perceived levels of social inequality.

    Nour S. Kteily;Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington;Arnold K. Ho

  • The enemy as animal: Symmetric dehumanization during asymmetric warfare.

    Emile Bruneau;Nour Sami Kteily

  • Hierarchy in the mind: The predictive power of social dominance orientation across social contexts and domains

    Nour Kteily;Arnold K. Ho;Jim Sidanius

  • The unique effects of blatant dehumanization on attitudes and behavior towards Muslim refugees during the European ‘refugee crisis’ across four countries

    Emile Bruneau;Nour Sami Kteily;Lasse Laustsen

  • “You’re one of us”:: Black Americans’ use of hypodescent and its association with egalitarianism.

    Arnold K. Ho;Nour S. Kteily;Jacqueline M. Chen

  • Denying humanity: The distinct neural correlates of blatant dehumanization.

    Emile Bruneau;Nir Jacoby;Nour Kteily;Rebecca Saxe

  • Negotiating power: agenda ordering and the willingness to negotiate in asymmetric intergroup conflicts.

    Nour S. Kteily;Tamar Saguy;James Sidanius;Donald M. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Jim Sidanius
Jim Sidanius Harvard University
Felicia Pratto
Felicia Pratto University of Connecticut
Adam Waytz
Adam Waytz Northwestern University
Shana Levin
Shana Levin Claremont McKenna College
Jonas R. Kunst
Jonas R. Kunst BI Norwegian Business School
Gordon Hodson
Gordon Hodson Brock University
Tamar Saguy
Tamar Saguy Reichman University
Vincent Yzerbyt
Vincent Yzerbyt Université Catholique de Louvain
Donald M. Taylor
Donald M. Taylor McGill University
Chris G. Sibley
Chris G. Sibley University of Auckland

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