Introduction

My main research interest is in ethnic identity and interethnic relations. I focus on the nature of ethnic, religious and national identities, and their interrelationships. I am interested in the conditions under which these identities become less or more important and strong, as well as the conditions under which they are experienced as compatible or rather contradictory. In addition, I examine various consequences of these identities, including well-being, group evaluations, and collective behaviour. Furthermore, I focus on interethnic ideologies (i.c. multiculturalism and assimilationism) and the content of social identities in relation to intergroup attitudes.      

Key publications

Gieling, M., Thijs, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2012). Dutch adolescents' tolerance of practices by Muslim actors: The effect of issue framing. Youth and Society (forthcoming).

 

Huijnk, W., Verkuyten, M., & Coenders, M. (2012). Family life and acculturation attitudes: A study among four immigrant groups in the Netherlands. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (forthcoming).

 

Lie, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2012). Identity practices, ingroup projection, and the evaluation of subgroups: A study among Turkish-Dutch Sunnis. Journal of Social Psychology, (forthcoming).

 

Munniksma, A., Flache, A., Verkuyten, M., & Veenstra, R. (2012). Parental acceptance of children’s intimate ethnic outgroup relations: The role of culture, status, and family reputation. International Journal of Intercultural Relations. (forthcoming)

 

Pouliasi, K., & Verkuyten, M. (2012). Understanding the relational self: An inter-generational study in the Netherlands and Greece. European Psychologist (forthcoming)

 

Rooyackers, I., & Verkuyten, M. (2012). Mobilizing support for the extreme right: A discursive analysis of minority leadership. British Journal of Social Psychology (forthcoming)

 

Verkuyten, M. (2012). Justifying discrimination of Muslim immigrants: Outgroup ideology and the five-step social identity model. British Journal of Social Psychology (forthcoming).

 

Verkuyten, M., & Khan, A. (2012). Interethnic relations in Malaysia: Group identifications, indispensability and inclusive nationhood. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, (forthcoming).

 

Verkuyten, M. (2012). Understanding ethnic minority identity. In A. Masten, D. Hernandez & K. Liebkind (Eds.), The potential of immigrant youth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Martinovic, B. (2012). Immigrants’ national identification: Meanings, determinants and consequences. Social Issues and Policy Review, (in press)

 

Verkuyten, M., & Martinovic, B. (2012). Social identity complexity and immigrants’ attitude towards the host nation: The intersection of ethnic and religious group identification. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (forthcoming)

 

Verkuyten, M., & Poppe, E. (2012). Political tolerance for Muslim practices: An intergroup perspective. In M. Helbling (Ed.), Islamophobia in the West: Measuring and explaning individual attitudes. London: Routledge.

 

Verkuyten, M., Thijs, J., & Stevens, G. (2012). Multiple identities and religious transmission: A study among Moroccan-Dutch Muslim adolescents and their parents. Child Development (forthcoming).

 

Yildiz, A.A., & Verkuyten, M. (2012). ‘We are not terrorists’: Turkish Muslim organizations and the construction of a moral identity. Ethnicities (forthcoming).

 

Briones, E., Verkuyten, M., Cosado, J., Tabernero, C. (2011). Psychological Adaptation of Moroccan and Ecuadorean Immigrant Adolescents in Spain. International Journal of Psychology, 27, 28-38.

 

Fleischmann. F., Verkuyten, M., & Poppe, E. (2011). Ethnic and republic identification in the Russian Federation and Ukraine: A social dominance perspective. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 37, 23-41.

 

Gieling, M., Thijs, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2011). Voluntary and involuntary immigrants and adolescents’ endorsement of cultural maintenance. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35, 259-267.

 

Guan, Y., Verkuyten, M., Fung, H. H., Bond, M. H., Chan, C. C., & Chen, S. X. (2011). Outgroup value incongruence and intergroup attitude: The roles of multiculturalism and common identity. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 35, 377-385.

 

Martinovic, B., Verkuyten, M., & Weesie, J. (2011). Group identity, ethnic separatism, and multiple out-groups: The Basque case. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 28-40.

 

Pouliasi, K., & Verkuyten, M. (2011). Self-evaluations, psychological well-being, and cultural context: The changing Greek society. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 42, 875-890.

 

Smeekes, A., Verkuyten, M., & Poppe, E. (2011). Mobilising opposition towards Muslim immigrants: National identification and the representation of national history. British Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 265-280.

 

Thijs, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2011). In-group bias in the classroom: The role of co-ethnic and other-ethnic peers and multiculturalism. Anales de Psicologia, 27, 662-668.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2011). Assimilation ideology and outgroup attitudes among ethnic majority members. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 14, 789-806.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2011). Ethnic discrimination and ethnic minority identity: A social psychological perspective. In S. Bonjour, A. Rea & D. Jacobs (Eds). The others in Europe (pp.127-136). Brussels: Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles

 

Verkuyten, M., Weesie, J., & Eijberts, M. (2011). The evaluation of perpetrators and victims of peer victimization: An extended crossed categorization approach. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 324-334.

 

Vroome, T. de, Coenders, M., Van Tubergen, F., & Verkuyten, M. (2011). Economic Participation and National Self-Identification of Refugees in the Netherlands. International Migration Review, 45, 615-638

 

Yildiz, A.A., & Verkuyten, M. (2012). Inclusive victimhood: Social identity and the politicization of collective trauma among Turkey’s Alevis in Western Europe. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology,17, 243-269.

 

Zilli Ramirez, C., & Verkuyten, M. (2011). Values, media framing and political tolerance for extremist groups. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 41, 1583-1602.

 

Belangér, E., & Verkuyten, M. (2010). Hyphenated identities and acculturation: Second generation Chinese of Canada and the Netherlands. Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research, 10, 141-163.

 

Gieling, M., Thijs, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2010). Tolerance of practices by Muslim actors: An integrative social-developmental perspective. Child Development, 81, 1384-1399.

 

Huijnk, W., Verkuyten, M., & Coenders, M. (2010). Intermarriage attitude among ethnic minority and majority groups in the Netherlands: The role of family relations and immigrant characteristics. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 41, 389-414.

 

Ng Tseung-Wong, C., & Verkuyten, M. (2010). Intergroup evaluations, Group indispensability and prototypical judgments: A study in Mauritius. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 621-638.

 

Phalet, K., Güngor, G., & Verkuyten, M. (2010). Political mobilization of Dutch Muslims: Effects of religious identity salience, goal framing and normative constraints. Journal of Social Issues, 66, 759-779.

 

 

Thijs, J., Verkuyten, M., & Helmond, P. (2010). A further examination of the Big-Fish-Little-Pond effect: Perceived position in class, class size, and gender comparisons. Sociology of Education, 83, 333-345.

 

Van der Noll, J., Verkuyten, M., & Poppe, E. (2010). Political tolerance and prejudice: Differential reactions toward Muslims in the Netherlands. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 32, 46-56.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2010). Identiteit en diversiteit: De tegenstellingen voorbij. Amsterdam: Pallas Publications/AUP.

 

Verkuyten M. (2010). Religious identity and socio-political participation: Muslim minorities in Western Europe. In A. Azzi, X. Chryssochoou, B. Klandermans, & B. Simon (Eds.), Identity and participation in culturally diverse societies. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2010). Multiculturalism and tolerance: An intergroup perspective. In R. Crisps (Ed.), The psychology of social and cultural diversity. Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2010). Assimilation ideology and situational well-being among ethnic minority members. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46, 269-275.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2010). Ethnic communication and identity performance. In H. Giles, S. Reid & J. Harwood (Eds.), The dynamics of intergroup communication. New York: Peter Lang.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2010). Ethnic minority labeling, multiculturalism and the attitude of majority group members. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 29, 467-477.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2010). Religious group relations among Christian, Muslim and non-religious early adolescents in the Netherlands. Journal of Early Adolescence, 30, 27-49.

 

Verkuyten, M., Thijs, J., & Bekhuis, H. (2010). Intergroup contact and ingroup reappraisal: Examining the deprovincialization thesis. Social Psychology Quarterly, 73, 398-416.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Yildiz, A.A. (2010). Religious identity consolidation and mobilisation among Turkish Dutch Muslims. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 436-447.

 

Thijs, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2009). Students’ anticipated situational engagement: The roles of teacher behaviour, personal engagement, and gender. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 170, 268-286.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2009). Support for multiculturalism and minority rights: The role of national identification and out-group threat. Social Justice Research, 22, 31-52.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2009). Self-esteem and multiculturalism: An examination among ethnic minority and majority groups in the Netherlands. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 419-427.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Yildiz, A.A. (2009). Muslim immigrants and religious group feelings: A study among Sunni and Alevi Turkish-Dutch. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 32, 1121-1142.

 

Wandert, T., Ochsmann, R., Brug, P., Chybicka, A., Lacassagne, M-F., & Verkuyten, M. (2009). Black German identities: Validating the multidimensional inventory of Black Identity. Journal of Black Psychology, 35, 456-484.

 

Coenders, M., Lubbers, M., Scheepers, P., & Verkuyten, M. (2008). More than two decades of changing ethnic attitudes in the Netherlands. Journal of Social Issues, 64, 269-285.

 

Kuroiwa, Y., & Verkuyten, M. (2008). Narratives and the constitution of a common identity: the Karen in Burma. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 15, 391-412.

 

Thijs, J., & Verkuyten, M. (2008). Peer Victimization and academic achievement in a multiethnic sample: The role of perceived academic self-efficacy. Journal of Educational Psychology, 100, 754-764.

 

Velasco González, K., Verkuyten, M., Weesie, J., & Poppe, E. (2008). Prejudice towards Muslims in the Netherlands: Testing Integrated Threat Theory. British Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 667-685.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2008). Life satisfaction among ethnic minorities: The role of discrimination and group identification. Social Indicators Research, 89, 391-404.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2008). Multiculturalism and group evaluations among minority and majority groups. In S. R. Levy & M. Killen (Eds.), Intergroup attitudes and relations in childhood through adulthood. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2008). Peer discrimination, ethnic minority identity and self-esteem. In Quintana, S.M., & McKown, C. (Eds.), The handbook of race, racism, and the developing child. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Reijerse, A. (2008). Intergroup structure and identity management among ethnic minority and majority groups: The interactive effects of perceived stability, legitimacy, and permeability. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 106-127.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Slooter, L. (2008). Muslim and non-Muslim adolescents’ reasoning about freedom of speech and minority rights. Child Development, 79, 514-528

 

Brug, P., & Verkuyten, M. (2007). Dealing with cultural diversity: The endorsement of societal models among ethnic minority and majority youth in the Netherlands. Youth and Society, 39, 112-131.

 

Pouliasi, K., & Verkuyten, M. (2007). Networks of meaning and the bicultural mind: A structural equation modeling approach. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 43, 955-963.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2007). Social psychology and multiculturalism. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 280-29.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2007). Ethnic in-group favoritism among minority and majority groups: Testing the self-esteem hypothesis among preadolescents. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 37, 486-500.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2007). Religious group identification and inter-religious relations: A study among Turkish-Dutch Muslims. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 10, 341-357.

 

Verkuyten, M., & De Wolf, A. (2007). The development of in-group favoritism: Between social reality and group identity. Developmental Psychology, 43, 901-911.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Slooter, L. (2007). Tolerance of Muslim beliefs and practices: Age related differences and context effects. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 31, 467-477.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Yildiz, A.A. (2007). National (dis)identification, and ethnic and religious identity: A study among Turkish-Dutch Muslims. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33, 1448-1462.

 

Cieslik, A., & Verkuyten, M. (2006). National, ethnic and religious identities: Hybridity and the case  of the Polish Tatars. National Identities, 8, 77-93.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2006). Multicultural recognition and ethnic minority rights: A social identity perspective. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds.), European Review of Social Psychology (vol.17,  pp. 148-184). London: Wiley.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2006). Ethnic peer victimization and psychological well-being among early adolescents. In X. Chen, D. French, & B. Schneider (Eds.), Peer relations in cultural context (pp.339-363). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Martinovic, B. (2006). Understanding multicultural attitudes: The role of group status, identification, friendships, and justifying ideologies. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 30, 1-18.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Pouliasi, K. (2006). Biculturalism and group identification: The mediating role of identification in cultural frame-switching. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 37, 312-326.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2006). Ethnic Discrimination and global self-worth in early adolescence. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30, 107-116.

 

Verkuyten, M., & A.A. Yildiz (2006). The endorsement of minority rights: The role of group position, national context, and ideological beliefs. Political Psychology, 27, 527-548.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2005). The social psychology of ethnic identity. Hove: Psychology Press.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2005). The puzzle of high self-esteem among ethnic minorities: Comparing explicit and implicit self-esteem. Self and Identity, 4, 171-192.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2005). Immigration discourses and their impact on multiculturalism: A discursive and experimental study. British Journal of Social Psychology, 44, 223-241.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2005). Accounting for ethnic discrimination: A discursive study among minority and majority group members. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 24, 66-92.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2005). Ethnic group identification, and group evaluations among minority and majority groups: Testing the multiculturalism hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 88, 121-138.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Steenhuis, A. (2005). Preadolescents’ understanding and reasoning about asylum seeker peers and friendships. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 26, 660-679.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Zaremba, K. (2005). Inter-ethnic relations in a changing political context. Social Psychology Quarterly, 68, 375-386.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2004).  Emotional reactions to and support for immigrant policies: Attributed responsibilities to categories of asylum seekers, Social Justice Research, 17, 293-314.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2004). Everyday ways of thinking about multiculturalism. Ethnicities, 4, 53-74.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2004). Ethnic minority identity and social context. In M. Bennett & F. Sani (Eds.), The Development of the Social Self. London: Psychology Press (pp. 189-216).

 

Verkuyten, M., & Brug, P. (2004). Multiculturalism and ethnic group status: The role of ethnic identification, group essentialism and protestant ethic. European Journal of Social Psychology, 34, 647-661.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2004). Psychological disengagement from the academic domain among ethnic minority adolescents in the Netherlands. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 74, 109-125.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2004). Global and ethnic self-esteem in school context: Minority and majority groups in the Netherlands. Social Indicators Research, 67, 253-281.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2003). Racism, happiness and ideology. In H. van den Berg, H. Houtekoop-Steenstra & M. Wetherell (Eds.), Analyzing interviews on racial issues: Multidisciplinary approaches to interview discourse (pp. 138-155). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2003). Ethnic in-group bias among minority and majority early adolescents: The perception of negative peer behaviour. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 21, 543-565.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2003). Discourses about ethnic group (de-)essentialism: oppressive and progressive aspects. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 371-391.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2003). Positive and negative self-esteem among ethnic minority early adolescents: Social  and cultural sources and threats. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 32, 267-277.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Brug, P. (2003). Educational performance and psychological disengagement among ethnic minority and Dutch adolescents. The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 164, 189-200.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Canatan, K. (2003). Normative orientation and educational outcomes in a school context. In Hagendoorn, L., Veenman, J. & Vollebergh, W. (Eds.) Cultural Orientation and Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants in the Netherlands. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2002). Perceptions of ethnic discrimination by minority and majority early adolescents in the Netherlands. International Journal of Psychology, 37, 321-332.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2002). Ethnic attitudes among minority and majority children: The role of ethnic identification, peer group victimization and parents. Social Development, 11, 558-570.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2002). Making teachers accountable for students’ disruptive classroom behaviour. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 23, 107-122.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Brug, P. (2002). Ethnic identity achievement, self-esteem and discrimination among Surinamese adolescents in the Netherlands. Journal of Black Psychology, 28, 122-141.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Hagendoorn, L. (2002). Ingroup favouritism and self-esteem: The role of identity level  and trait valence. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 5, 285-298.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Pouliasi, K. (2002). Biculturalism among older children: Cultural frame switching, attributions, self-identification and attitudes. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 33, 596-608.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2002). Racist victimization among children in the Netherlands: The effect of ethnic group and school. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 25, 310-331.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2002). Multiculturalism among minority and majority adolescents in the Netherlands. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 26, 91-108.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2002). School satisfaction of elementary school children: The role of performance, peer relations, ethnicity and gender. Social Indicators Research, 59, 203-228.

 

Verkuyten, M., & de Wolf, A. (2002). Ethnic minority identity and group context: Self-descriptions, acculturation attitudes and group evaluations in an intra- and intergroup situation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 32, 781-800.

 

Verkuyten, M. & de Wolf, A. (2002). ‘Being, feeling and doing’: Discourses and ethnic self-definitions among minority group members. Culture and Psychology, 8, 371-399.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2001). National identification and intergroup evaluation in Dutch children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 559-571.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2001). Abnormalization of ethnic minorities in conversation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 257-278.

 

Verkuyten, M. (2001). Global self-esteem, ethnic self-esteem and family integrity: Turkish and Dutch early adolescents in the Netherlands. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 25, 357-366.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Brug, P. (2001). Self-esteem and ethnic and national identification among adolescents in the Netherlands. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 9, 321-343.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Nekuee. S. (2001). Self-esteem, discrimination and coping among refugees: The moderating role of self-categorization. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 31, 1058-1075.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2001). Peer victimization and self-esteem of ethnic minority group children. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 11, 227-234.

 

Verkuyten, M., & Thijs, J. (2001). Ethnic and gender bias among Dutch and Turkish children in late childhood: The role of social context. Infant and Child Development, 10, 203-217.

 

Verkuyten, M., Thijs, J., & Canatan, K. (2001). Achievement motivation and academic performance among ethnic minority early and young adolescents. Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs, 127, 378-408.

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Name	prof. dr. Verkuijten, M.J.A.M. (Maykel)
E-mailaddress	m.verkuyten@uu.nl
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