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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"immigration attitudes"”.
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Contextual Dynamics of Immigration Attitudes: Regional Differences in Southern Europe
"Research in the area of attitudes towards immigration will benefit from a more thorough discussion of the relationship between degrees of political engagement and the variance of political and social tolerance towards immigrants. Drawing upon institutional theory and realistic conflict theory, I …
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Attitudes Towards Immigration in Western and Central-Eastern Europe: A Comparative Analysis
… dissertation studies the puzzling divergence in immigration attitudes between Western and Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). While immigration attitudes in the West liberalised, they became increasingly conservative in the East. The gap in the willingness to accept at least some immigrants between the …
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Attitudes Towards Undocumented Immigrants: Influences of Political Ideology, Media Bias Exposure, Race/Ethnicity, and Ethnocultural Empathy
… media bias exposure, ethnocultural empathy, and attitudes toward immigrants, with a focus on the mediating role of ethnocultural empathy. A sample of 402 undergraduate psychology students at a large public university in Texas completed measures assessing political conservatism, media consumption …
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Emerging political conflicts and the role of personality
… changes taking place. My first paper focuses on immigration attitudes in the UK and investigates how people with different personalities respond to rising levels of immigrants in their local areas. I show that the likely response is dependent both on the immigrant group, as well as one’s …
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Losing Status and Entitativity: How Population Shifts Affect Attitudes Toward Immigrants via Social Identity Threats
… such demographic changes can result in negative attitudes toward immigrants via elevated status threat to the ethnic majority group. Drawing from social identity theory and uncertainty-identity theory, two studies were conducted to examine whether population shift can elicit anti-immigration …
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An investigation into the political psychology of attitudes towards immigration in the UK: What drives these attitudes, can they be predicted, and can they be changed?
This thesis investigates British attitudes towards immigration, a key issue in the 2016 EU referendum. As its primary contribution to the literature, it demonstrates that British people can become more positive about immigration after exposure to a short text. The thesis draws on literature …
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Understanding the Role of Emotions in Mediated Intergroup Threat: A Cultivation and Appraisal Theory Approach
… emotions toward Asians. In Study 2 a 2 (Immigration: Threat/No-Threat) X 2 (Ingroup Emotional Norm Endorsement: Present/Absent) plus 1 (Control) experiment examined the impact of mediated intergroup threat on attitudes toward immigration, collective self-esteem, information sharing and …
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Three Essays on Globalization, Structural Change, and Political Economy
… and my coauthors investigate the determinants of attitudes towards globalization barriers (trade and immigration) and how important these attitudes are in how people vote. In line with the existing results in the literature, we find that more educated and richer voters support freer trade and more …
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This Land is (not) Your Land: Racial Boundaries and American Appropriation in the Formation of Attitudes about Immigrants
… racial boundaries appear when assessing attitudes about immigrants, dependent upon the particular measure of immigration perspectives and dimension of American Appropriation. I find that American Appropriation strengthens racial boundaries in the formation of immigration hostility.