Ethnic diversity, trust, and the mediating role of positive and negative interethnic contact: A priming experiment
Ethnic diversity, trust, and the mediating role of positive and negative interethnic contact: A priming experiment
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DOI：
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2014.03.014
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发表时间：
2014-09-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Veit, Susanne
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作者：
Koopmans, Ruud;Veit, Susanne
这项研究不仅表明，实证良好的住宅多样性和信任的邻居之间的负相关关系持有的情况下，德国，但超越现有的研究提供的多样性效应的因果关系的实验证据。暴露于实验刺激，使其社区的种族或宗教异质性显着的受访者显示出显着较低的水平，在他们的邻居比对照组的受访者的信任。此外，我们探讨了种族间的接触在调解多样性和信任之间的关系的作用，在一定程度上的细节，以前的研究无法比拟的。我们认为，不仅是积极的形式，如友谊，种族间的接触，但也中性和消极的接触之间的人的本地和移民的起源。我们发现，种族间的接触介导负多样性的信任以不同的方式为两组。对于本地人来说，在不同的背景下与移民的遥远遭遇和负面经历减少了信任，而对于移民出身的人来说，在不同的社区中，本地熟人的数量相对较少，因此对邻居的信任受到影响。(C)2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
This study not only shows that the empirically well-established negative relationship between residential diversity and trust in neighbors holds for the case of Germany, but goes beyond existing research by providing experimental evidence on the causal nature of the diversity effect. Respondents exposed to experimental stimuli that made salient the ethnic or religious heterogeneity of their neighborhoods display significantly lower levels of trust in their neighbors than do respondents in the control group. Further, we explore the role of interethnic contact in mediating the relationship between diversity and trust in a degree of detail unmatched by earlier studies. We consider not only positive forms of interethnic contact such as friendships, but also neutral and negative encounters between people of native and immigrant origin. We find that interethnic contacts mediate negative diversity effects on trust in different ways for both groups. For natives, distant encounters and negative experiences with immigrants in diverse contexts reduce trust, whereas for people of immigrant origin trust in neighbors suffers from the relatively small number of native acquaintances in diverse neighborhoods. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.