Selected Articles in Scholarly Journals

Esses, V., Sutter, A., Hamilton, L., Bilodeau, A., Palma, P., Lacassagne, A., Neuman, K., & Gaucher, D. (2024). Public attitudes toward immigrants and immigration in smaller Canadian communities. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 56(3), 43-67.

French Bourgeois, L., & Esses, V.M. (2024) Using twitter to investigate discourse on immigration: The role of values in expressing polarized attitudes toward asylum seekers during the closure of Roxham Road. Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2, 1376647.

Bagci, S. Ç., Çoksan, S., Tercan, M., & Türnüklü, A. (2024). Do positive and negative intergroup contact create shifts in ingroup and outgroup attitudes over time: A three-wave longitudinal study testing alternative mediation models. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 34(6), e70011.

Uysal, M. S., Çoksan, S., & Kessler, T. (2024). How does collective punishment harm intergroup relations through ingroup homogeneity, perceived fairness, and counter-collective action?: A registered report. Political Psychology.

Sayılan, G., Çoksan, S., & Can, M. (2024). Differences in acculturation orientations of advantaged and disadvantaged members of the host community in Türkiye toward newcomers: The roles of ethnic and national identification and perceived outgroup threat. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 10(2), 46-70.

Çoksan, S., Kekeli, B., Turgut, B., & Sağdış, E. (2024). Personality traits and common ingroup identity: Support for refugee policies among host members. Changing Societies & Personalities, 8(3), 713–735.

Çoksan, S., & Yilmaz, A. D. (2024). Focusing on fake news’ contents: The association between ingroup identification, perceived outgroup threat, analytical-intuitive thinking and detecting fake news. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 24(1), 102-132.

Uygur, M. R., Eser, H. B., Çoksan, S., & Sarıdağ, S. (2024). Multiculturalism, social distance, and xenophobia among non-weird individuals toward Syrian refugees: Positive and negative emotions as moderators. Current Psychology, 43, 22859–22871.

Vaswani, M., Sutter, A., Lapshina, N., & Esses, V.M. (2023). Discrimination experienced by immigrants, racialized individuals, and Indigenous peoples in small- and mid-sized communities in Southwestern Ontario. Canadian Review of Sociology, 60, 92-113.

Sutter, A., Vaswani, M., Denice, P., Choi, K., Bouchard,, J., & Esses, V.M. (2022). Ageism toward older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: Intergenerational conflict and support. Journal of Social Issues, 78, 815-841.

Hamilton, L.K., Esses, V.M., & Walton-Roberts, M. (2022). Borders, boundaries and the impact of COVID-19 on immigration to Canada. Studies in Social Justice, 16, 1-8.

Esses, V.M. (2021). Prejudice and discrimination toward immigrants. Annual Review of Psychology, 72, 503-531.

Esses, V.M., & Hamilton, L.K., (2021). Xenophobia and anti-immigrant attitudes in the time of COVID-19. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24(2), 253-259.

Esses, V., McRae, J., Alboim, N., Brown, N., Friesen, C., Hamilton, L., Lacassagne, A., Macklin, A., & Walton-Roberts, M. (2021). Supporting Canada’s COVID-19 resilience and recovery through robust immigration policy and programs. FACETS, 6, 686-759.

Esses, V.M., Sutter, A., Bouchard, J., Choi, K., & Denise, P. (2021). North American attitudes toward immigrants and immigration in the time of COVID-19: The role of national attachment and threat. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 697. 174-191.

Palma, P., Sinclair, V., & Esses, V.M. (2019). Facts versus feelings: Objective and subjective experiences of diversity differentially impact attitudes toward the European Union. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 5, 726-743.

Gaucher, D., Friesen, J.P., Neufeld, K., & Esses, V.M. (2018). Changes in the positivity of migrant stereotypes: How system-sanctioned pro-migrant ideology can affect public opinions of migrants. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 9, 223-233.

Nakeyar, C., Esses, V., & Reid, G.J. (2018). The psychosocial needs of refugee children and youth and best practices for filling these needs: A systematic review. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 23, 186-208.