The Association between Perceived and Actual Xenophobia (APAX)

该项目旨在通过带有非假设性小插曲的在线信任游戏，从经验上揭示和澄清实际和感觉到的仇外/歧视之间的模糊联系。在仇外心理的主要困惑中，再次出现的调查结果是，移民出身的人融入社会较好，往往感到特别受歧视和排斥;但他们是吗？除其他外，一种解释是，他们的文化适应使他们能够充分了解他们面临的歧视的真正程度。为了正确调查这些主张和问题，我们需要关于a）个人对仇外心理和歧视的看法与B）土著多数成员对他们的实际排斥和歧视相比的（不）准确性的微观数据。该项目旨在通过在德国（西部）五个最大城市的2 000名德国本地人和移民中进行在线信任游戏，首次收集此类数据。信任博弈的优势在于它围绕着两个参与者的相互评价展开。因此，它允许我们观察（在连续的尺度上）参与者实际上（错误）信任的程度以及他们是否感知到（错误）信任。只有这样特殊的数据将使我们能够探究实际的和感知的仇外心理的经验联系，从而测试长期存在的论点，并深入研究这个鲜为人知但至关重要的种族边界划分方面。

This project sets out to empirically uncover and clarify the obscure interlinkage of actual and perceived xenophobia/discrimination by means of online trust games with non-hypothetical vignettes. Among the prominent puzzles of perceived xenophobia range re-appearing findings that better-integrated persons of immigrant origin tend to feel particularly discriminated and rejected; but are they? One explanation, among others, is that their acculturation allows them to fully grasp the true extent of discrimination they face. To properly investigate these claims and questions, we need micro data about the (in-)accuracy of a) individuals’ perceptions of xenophobia and discrimination compared against b) their actual rejection and discrimination by native majority members. This project aims to collect such data for the first time, by conducting online trust games with non-hypothetical vignettes among 2,000 native German and persons of immigrant origin in (West-)Germany’s five largest cities. The advantage of the trust game is that it revolves around two players’ mutual evaluation. It thereby allows us to observe (on a continuous scale) how much the participants are actually (mis-)trusted and whether they perceive to be (mis-)trusted. Only such exceptional data will allow us to inquire into the empirical interlinkage of actual and perceived xenophobia and thereby test long standing arguments and delve deeper into this little understood but crucial aspect of ethnic boundary making.