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Manipulating Complexity Tolerance to Diversity Reaching Through the Identity Complexity Changing

Student: Zhesteryova Elena

Supervisor: Marina Kotova

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Applied Social Psychology (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2016

This study investigates persons’ representations of different identities, difference in perception of present identities – more personally derived (e.g. experience, close intimate contacts, value based interests, etc.) and larger, socially built identities and its interconnection with tolerance of ambiguity and social diversity. Experimental research tested how sensitive to transformation are person’s identity representation, how type of transformation (simplifying or complexing) affects tolerance of ambiguity and diversity attitudes. Finding suggest on the significant association between tolerance of ambiguity, social identity complexity and given experimental treatment in the studied samples. The experimental hypotheses (H1: manipulated complex awareness of ingroups who share social identity increases tolerance to social diversity; H2: manipulated simplified awareness of ingroups who share social identity decreases tolerance to social diversity; H3: complex awareness of identity increasing index of social identity complexity) were confirmed as level of tolerance of ambiguity changed significantly under the influence of each type in each group. In the control group confirmed the results of the impact of the experimental treatment. Used measurement and statistical methods separated significant effect of experimental intervention, which in real life can be substituted on growing of personal experience of complex social environment, awareness of one’s own simultaneous multiple group membership (in and outgroup at any time) and having positive attitudes towards social diversity and being tolerant to it.

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