Can Information about Pandemics Increase Negative Attitudes toward Foreign Groups? A Case of COVID-19 Outbreak
Can Information about Pandemics Increase Negative Attitudes toward Foreign Groups? A Case of COVID-19 Outbreak
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有关流行病的信息会增加对外国团体的负面态度吗？
DOI：
10.31234/osf.io/j23vt
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发表时间：
2020
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
M. Karwowski
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作者：
P. Sorokowski;Agata Groyecka;M. Kowal;A. Sorokowska;Michał J. Białek;I. Lebuda;M. Dobrowolska;Przemysław Zdybek;M. Karwowski
病原体威胁可以转化为在心理层面上与他人保持距离的意愿。基于这一概念，我们预测持续的冠状病毒大流行可能会影响人们对外国国籍的态度。我们在两项总共涉及 652 名参与者的研究中探讨了当前流行病学状况的组间后果。在相关研究 1 中，我们发现英国和波兰的媒体曝光度与对四个外国国籍的偏见之间存在正相关关系。研究 2 表明，对意大利人（即在研究时正在与最严重的 COVID-19 疫情作斗争的国家）的负面影响可以通过接触有关冠状病毒的新闻而增加焦虑感来间接预测，但当考虑普遍的偏见衡量标准时，没有观察到这种影响。总体而言，我们的研究表明，偏见和焦虑对当前的流行病学状况很敏感，我们的研究结果表明，COVID-19 的爆发可能会转化为严重的社会后果，并增加受疫情影响最严重的国家的心理距离。
Pathogen threat can translate into a willingness to distance oneself from others on a psychological level. Building on this notion, we predicted that the ongoing coronavirus pandemic can affect attitudes toward foreign nationalities. We explored the intergroup consequences of the current epidemiological situation in two studies involving a total of 652 participants. In correlational Study 1, we showed a positive relationship between media exposure in the United Kingdom (UK) and in Poland, and prejudice to four foreign nationalities. Study 2 showed that negative affect toward Italians (i.e., a nation struggling with the most severe COVID-19 outbreak at the time of the study) was indirectly predicted by exposure to news about coronavirus through the increase in anxiety, but this effect was not observed when a generalized measure of prejudice was considered. Overall, our studies revealed that prejudice and anxiety are sensitive to the current epidemiological situation, and our findings suggest that the outbreak of COVID-19 may translate into severe social consequences and increased psychological distancing to nations most affected by the pandemic.
影响因子：
4
作者：
R. Baldwin;B. W. D. Mauro
通讯作者：
R. Baldwin;B. W. D. Mauro