Konstantina Zanou's Transnational patriotism is a thought-provoking book, which offers multi-faceted perspective on its subject that brings together scholarship nationalism and diasporas with modern Greek Italian intellectual history. Written in lively accessible language based thorough research, it makes the reader rethink some of major dilemmas our own time while still remaining true to persp...

Mortality salience (MS) effects, where death reminders lead to ingroup-bias and defensive protection of one’s world-view, have been claimed be a fundamental human motivator. MS phenomena ostensibly identified in several hundred studies within the “terror management theory” framework, but transparent high-powered replications are lacking. Experiment 1 (N = 101 Norwegian lab participants) aimed r...

patriotism and nationalism make up the two sides of the spectrum of national attachment; but with different meanings, tendencies, and outcomes. this article, based on the current theories about national attachment, tries to study this subject from a different point of view. the main goal of this article is to explain national attachment in the context of the positive feeling of people toward th...

In the literature addressing the determinants of TV audiences in sports, both the absolute and relative playing strength of the opponents play a prominent role. Regarding national team competitions, however, this study conjectures that patriotism matters as well. Analyzing the Swiss TV audience at 2 World Cups and 2 European Football Championships, this study finds strong evidence that TV ratin...

this exploratory study attempts to shed some light on the ethnocentric behaviours of young iranians in relation to the global consumer culture. it demonstrates why and how these individuals adhere to their own cultural resources and refrain from consuming the products or daily life practices of other cultures. the analysis of interpretive interviews with twelve participants in tehran and karaj ...