Biography
After my MSc degree in the research master on Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism, I obtained my doctoral degree at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. My doctoral research took place at the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) and at European Research Center on Migration and Ethnic Relations). In 2007, I was a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, at the Survey Research Center, and in 2008 I went to the University of Sussex, Department of Psychology for an internship. At the Graduate School of the Faculty of Social Sciences in Utrecht, I coordinated several workshops, international events and student exchanges, within the Trans-Atlantic Student Mobility Project in "Race, Ethnicity and Migration Studies" (EU-FIPSE). In the Department of Psychology, at UL (since the 1st of January 2010)
Research Interests
Research Areas of interest 1. The interaction between social structure, national/political ideologies and intergroup attitudes (such as group stereotypes, support for group rights, multiculturalism, conceptions of citizenship) 2. Types and meanings of social identities and their effects on people's engagement with their ingroups and exclusion of outgroups 3. Factors that entitle individuals and groups to certain privileges, empowering them to engage in collective action
My research is focused on how group membership affects behavior in specific ethno-national intergroup contexts. I am interested in how power and status relationships are reflected in individuals' understandings of themselves and their social environment, conditioning their responses to outsiders and social change in general. I use social psychological theories and quantitative empirical methods to analyze the interaction between social context and individuals, in order to address social problems like exclusion and marginalization.
Publications
Book
Book Chapter
Supporting Minority Rights: Inter-Group Determinants and Consequences
Minescu, A.
The Tension between Group Rights and Human Rights. A Multidisciplinary Approach
Are Minority Rights Beneficial for Inter-Ethnic Relations? The Impact of Political Ideologies and Group Position in Russia
Minescu, A.
Culture and Conflict. Liber Amicorum for Louk Hagendoorn
Peer Reviewed Journal
The last acceptable prejudice in Europe? Anti-Gypsyism as the obstacle to Roma inclusion
Kende A.;Hadarics M.;Bigazzi S.;Boza M.;Kunst J.R.;Lantos N.A.;Lášticová B.;Minescu A.;Pivetti M.;Urbiola A.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
DOI: 10.1177/1368430220907701
'We fight for a better future for our country': Understanding the Ukrainian Euromaidan movement as the emergence of a social competition strategy
Chayinska, M;Minescu, A;McGarty, C
British Journal Of Social Psychology
DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12283
"They've conspired against us": Understanding the role of social identification and conspiracy beliefs in justification of ingroup collective behavior
Chayinska, M;Minescu, A
European Journal Of Social Psychology
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2511
'The More We Stand For - The More We Fight For': Compatibility and Legitimacy in the Effects of Multiple Social Identities
Chayinska, M,Minescu, A,McGarty, C
Frontiers in psychology
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00642
Parents' and children's understanding of their own and others' national identity: The importance of including the family in the national group
Muldoon, OT,O'Donnell, AT,Minescu, A
Journal Of Community & Applied Social Psychology
DOI: 10.1002/casp.2308
Political solidarity through action (and inaction): How international relations changed intracultural perceptions in Ukraine
Chayinska, M,Minescu, A,McGarty, C
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
DOI: 10.1177/1368430216682354
Intergroup Conflict in Russia: Testing the Group Position Model
Minescu, A; Poppe, E
Social Psychology Quarterly
DOI: 10.1177/0190272511408057
Types of Identification and Intergroup Differentiation in the Russian Federation
Minescu, A., Hagendoorn, L., Poppe, E.
Journal Of Social Issues
Generality and Specificity in Stereotypes of Out-group Power and Benevolence: Views of Chechens and Jews in the Russian Federation.
Leach, C.W., Minescu, A., Poppe, E. & Hagendoorn, L.
European Journal Of Social Psychology
Support for Separatism in Ethnic Republics of the Russian Federation
Hagendoorn, L., Poppe, E. & Minescu, A.
Europe-Asia Studies