Research on Nostalgia

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/nostalgia/publications/

Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., Routledge, C. R, Arndt, J., & Zhou, X. (2009). Buffering acculturative stress and facilitating cultural adaptation: Nostalgias as a psychological resource. In R. S. Wyer, Jr., C.-y. Chiu, & Y.-y. Hong (Eds.), Understanding culture: Theory, research, and application (pp. 361-378). New York, NY: Psychology Press.http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/09/science/what-is-nostalgia-good-for-quite-a-bit-research-shows.html - interesting, as they say feelings of nostalgia is universal. But I'm sure for Russians or more complain-lover cultures, making people become nostalgic won't have positive effects, at least not when instantly asked. I am ready for science to fail me!

Prof at Tilburg - some interesting research

http://publications.uvt.nl/repository/vingerhoets/publications.html

• Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M., Sanders, N., & Kuper, W. (1997). Health issues in international tourism: The role of health behavior, stress, and adaptation. In M. van Tilburg & A.J.J.M. Vingerhoets (Eds.), Psychological aspects of geographical moves: Homesickness and acculturation stress. (pp. 201-216). Tilburg: Tilburg University Press.
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• Becht, M.C., & Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M. (2002). Crying and Mood Change: a Cross-Cultural Study. Cognition and Emotion, 16(1), 87-101.
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• Hemert, D.A. van, Vijver, F.J.R. van de, & Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M. (2011). Country and crying: Prevalences and gender differences. Cross-Cultural Research, 45, 399-431.
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another study idea

perception of attractiveness of girls according to their major.

Possible Thesis Titles

Challenging the Gendered and Ethnicized Organization: The Role of Group Affirmation In Counteracting Ingroup Distancing among Muslim Women

A Consequence of Systemic Bias in the Workplace: Exploring the Role of Group Affirmation in Thwarting "Ingroup Distancing" among Minority Women

When You Distance Yourself from Your Own Comrades?: A Consequence of the Biased Organizational Culture

When Minority Members Distance Themselves from Their Own Group: A Consequence of the Biased Organizational Culture and the Role of Group Affirmation In Counteracting Ingroup Distancing

Since the 1980s, feminist critique of essentialist assumptions
about gender increasingly has employed an intersectionality
perspective to understand gender in relation to
other social identities, such as race, class, ethnicity and
sexual orientation. In contrast to models that suggest for
each minority status there is a simple accumulation of
disadvantage, such that the Black woman is doubly
disadvantaged compared to the Black man, the intersectionality
framework emphasizes the qualitative differences
among different intersectional positions. For example, “the
very meaning of manhood may vary when applied to one’s
own racial group as compared to another group; similarly
the meaning of a given racial category may vary for men
and women” (Mullings and Schulz 2006, p. 5).


In sum, the construct of intersectionality has assumed a
significant position in thinking about gender. As the
foundation for theory it promised a more accurate and
tractable way of dealing with two issues. First, it promised
a solution, or at least a language for the glaring fact that it is

impossible to talk about gender without considering other
dimensions of social structure/social identity that play a
formative role in gender’s operation and meaning. In the
U.S., the most obvious, pervasive, and seemingly unalterable
are race and social class. Second, intersectionality
seemed a generally applicable descriptive solution to the
multiplying features that create and define social identities.
It is not race-class-gender, but also age, ableness, sexual

orientation, to name the most salient.


In Europe, religion and ethnicity are the most obvious, pervasive and seemingly unalterable social dimensions which play a role in gender's operation and meaning.

The very meaning of Muslim varies for women and men.

Identity is experienced by the individual themself. -> ingroup distancing is a mechanism that Muslim women associate personal meaning to their disadvantaged categories and 

Beyond Subordination vs. Resistance: An Intersectional Approach to the Agency of Veiled Muslim Women

Engaging with a figure that came to operate as a powerful cultural signifier of otherness in debates over migrant/Muslim integration across the West, the ‘veiled woman’; the paper questions the idea of agency that inheres in the contemporary feminist discourses on Muslim veil. After showing the shortcomings and adverse effects of two dominant readings of the Muslim veil, as a symbol of women's subordination to men, or as an act of resistance to Western hegemony, it explores an alternative avenue drawing on both the poststructuralist critique of the humanist subject and feminist intersectional theorising to answer the question of what kind of conception of agency can help us to think about the agency of the veiled woman without binding a priori the meaning of her veiling to the teleology of emancipation, whether feminist or anti-imperialist.

Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective

This paper serves as a “best practices guide” for researchers interested in applying intersectionality theory to psychological research. Intersectionality, the mutually constitutive relations among social identities, presents several issues to researchers interested in applying it to research. I highlight three central issues and provide guidelines for how to address them. First, I discuss the constraints in the number of identities that researchers are able to test in an empirical study, and highlight relevant decision rules. Second, I discuss when to focus on “master” identities (e.g., gender) versus “emergent” identities (i.e., White lesbian). Third, I argue that treating identity as a process situated within social structural contexts facilitates the research process. I end with a brief discussion of the implications for the study of intersectionality.

nice choice of words

Diaspora, as a venerated concept, has a strong placement in our political and intellectual discourses. My article questions the deployment of diaspora as an analytical category in explaining the contemporary immigration experience. Focusing peculiarly on the ethnic axis of homelands and abroad, theories of diaspora overlook the transgressions of the national and lose sight of the new dynamics and topography of membership. I suggest that a more productive perspective is achieved by focusing our analytical providence on the proliferating sites of making and enacting citizenship. I do this by elaborating two paradoxes underlying the contemporary formations of citizenship: a) the increasing decoupling of rights and identities, the two main components of citizenship; b) the tendency towards particularistic claims in public spheres and their legitimation through universalistic discourses of personhood. These paradoxes warrant that we have new forms of making claims, mobilizing identity and practising citizenship, which lie beyond the limiting dominion of ethnically informed diasporic arrangements, transactions and belongings.