What triggers public opposition to immigration? Anxiety, group cues, and immigration threat
What triggers public opposition to immigration? Anxiety, group cues, and immigration threat
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00353.x
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发表时间：
2008-10-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Suhay, Elizabeth
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作者：
Brader, Ted;Valentino, Nicholas A.;Suhay, Elizabeth
我们研究精英话语是否以及如何塑造大众对移民政策的意见和行动。一种流行但未经证实的怀疑是，人们对移民成本新闻的反应取决于移民是谁。我们在一项具有全国代表性的实验中证实了这一怀疑：当有关移民成本的新闻出现在拉美移民（而非欧洲移民）的报道中时，白人的反对情绪要强烈得多。我们发现这些群体线索通过引发情绪——尤其是焦虑——而不是简单地通过改变对移民问题严重性的看法来影响观点和政治行动。第二个实验重复了这些发现，但也证实了他们对群体线索及其背景的刻板一致性的敏感性。虽然这些结果与最近关于焦虑力量的见解相呼应，但它们也表明，当群体暗示独立于群体构成的实际威胁而引发焦虑时，公众容易受到错误和操纵。
We examine whether and how elite discourse shapes mass opinion and action on immigration policy. One popular but untested suspicion is that reactions to news about the costs of immigration depend upon who the immigrants are. We confirm this suspicion in a nationally representative experiment: news about the costs of immigration boosts white opposition far more when Latino immigrants, rather than European immigrants, are featured. We find these group cues influence opinion and political action by triggering emotions-in particular, anxiety-not simply by changing beliefs about the severity of the immigration problem. A second experiment replicates these findings but also confirms their sensitivity to the stereotypic consistency of group cues and their context. While these results echo recent insights about the power of anxiety, they also suggest the public is susceptible to error and manipulation when group cues trigger anxiety independently of the actual threat posed by the group.