TÜBİTAK Projesi, 2017 - 2018
Recognizing the multi-dimensional nature of these conflicts, scholars in psychology and other social sciences have focused in particular on the role of identity, not as a source of acrimony between groups, but, more importantly, as a source of cooperation and tolerance. The current project has two main objectives. First, it focuses not only on intergroup processes of identity formation in an individual, generally based on a single categorization, but also on intra-individual processes of multiple identities to understand identity processes in the context of politically conflictual intergroup relations. Second, it assesses the role of identity content in the relationship between identification with a nation and various behaviors, emotions, and cognitions such as support for a nation's foreign policy, involving political ideology, party political engagement, the development of particular human values, and emotions toward outgroups.