Changes in the Positivity of Migrant Stereotype Content

Gaucher, Danielle; Friesen, Justin; Neufeld, Katelin H. S.; Esses, Victoria M.

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“…In line with this interpretation of the findings, Gaucher et al (2018) found in a longitudinal study that warmth and competence stereotypes of migrants and refugees (rated from the perspective of "most Canadians") became more positive following a change in government and related changes in political rhetoric and policies toward refugees. This change was stronger among individuals motivated to justify their sociopolitical system.…”

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confidence: 64%

Intergroup Relations During the Refugee Crisis: Individual and Cultural Stereotypes and Prejudices and Their Relationship With Behavior Toward Asylum Seekers

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2020

Front. Psychol.

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In this paper, I investigate intergroup relations between natives and asylum seekers during the European refugee crisis, and contribute to the reemerging methodological debate on the measurement of stereotypes and prejudices as individual and collective constructs. Drawing on data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel (NCP; N = 1,062), I examined how Norwegians stereotyped asylum seekers at the height of the refugee crisis and the emotional prejudices asylum seekers as a group elicited. By experimentally manipulating the survey question format, I examined whether and how stereotypes and emotional prejudices toward asylum-seekers differed depending on their measurement as individual or collective constructs. A subset of respondents (n = 228) had reception centers for asylum-seekers established in their local community during the crisis. These participants reported their behaviors toward the asylum seekers in their neighborhood. In this subsample, I investigated how individual facilitating and harming intergroup behavior was related to individual and collective conceptualizations of stereotypes and prejudices. The results showed that both low warmth and low competence stereotypes, as well as negative emotions toward asylum seekers, were rated as stronger when measured as collective as compared to individual-level constructs. In the individual condition, respondents reported feeling more admiration and sympathy than respondents in the collective condition attributed to others. Individual stereotypes and prejudices correlated systematically with individual facilitating and harming intergroup behaviors. The perception that others hold more negative stereotypes of asylum seekers, and the perceived anger and fear of others, did correlated with individual harming behaviors. Perceptions of others’ anxiety correlated negatively with facilitating behaviors. Implications and future directions for the conceptualization and measurement of stereotypes and emotional prejudices are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 64%

Intergroup Relations During the Refugee Crisis: Individual and Cultural Stereotypes and Prejudices and Their Relationship With Behavior Toward Asylum Seekers

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2020

Front. Psychol.

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“…Although we had hypothesized a negative association, there are likely instances wherein a positive association would exist. Whereas system justification was long thought of as a motivation to resist changes to psychologically-important social systems, recent work finds that even high system justifiers may support social change if it seems consistent with the system's values and ideals (e.g., Calogero & Tylka, 2014;Feygina, Jost, & Goldsmith, 2010;Gaucher, Friesen, Neufeld, & Esses, 2018;Jost, 2015). Future research could also use context-specific system justification scales.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…People's attitudes toward social groups and issues can shift based on various factors, such as increased familiarity with or knowledge about the issue (Neufeld, Boese, Starzyk, & Efimoff, 2019). The views of a prominent leader can also produce corresponding shifts in public attitudes, resulting from normative shifts (Crandall, Miller, & White II, 2018) or the motivation to justify the system the leader represents (Gaucher et al, 2018). Future research should explore whether the PSM is sensitive to such changes.…”

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Political solidarity: A theory and a measure

Neufeld

Starzyk

Gaucher

2019

J. Soc. Polit. Psych.

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Political solidarity is often key to addressing societal injustice. Yet social and political psychology are without a common definition or comprehensive measure of this construct, complicating advancements in this burgeoning field. To address these gaps, we advance a novel understanding and measure of this construct. We conceptualized political solidarity as a construct consisting of three factors—allyship with a minority outgroup, a connection to their cause, and a commitment to working with them to achieve social change—that can emerge within and across social groups. Five studies empirically supported our conceptualization and measure; all participants were Canadian university students. In Study 1, 1,594 participants completed the initial 30-item pool. A series of exploratory factor analyses, along with indices of factor retention, supported the three-factor model. We retained three items per factor to create the 9-item Political Solidarity Measure (PSM). This three-factor model adequately fit Study 2 data (N = 275). In Study 3 (N = 268), we found evidence of the PSM’s convergent and discriminant validity. Studies 3 and 4 assessed the PSM’s retest stability in the medium-term (three to six months; Study 3) and short-term (a three-week period; Study 4; N = 126). Finally, we demonstrate the PSM’s predictive validity in Study 5 (N = 221). Controlling for modern racism, political orientation, and gender, PSM scores predicted collective action intentions and behavior benefitting the outgroup: Participants who reported higher political solidarity donated more to the outgroup’s cause and were more likely to agree to create a message of support.

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“…These policy decisions might in turn affect public opinions about the newcomers. Indeed, a recent study by Gaucher, Friesen, Neufeld, and Esses (2018) showed that system-sanctioned pro-migrant ideology of the government in power can affect public opinions of migrants. Thus, the political rhetoric around these labels may influence people's attitudes toward the different groups.…”

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Good refugees, bad migrants? Intergroup helping orientations toward refugees, migrants, and economic migrants in Germany

Wyszynski

Guerra

Bierwiaczonek

2020

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The present study examined the effect of group labels on helping behavioral intentions toward displaced people in Germany. Specifically, it examined the impact of different labels evoking either voluntary or forced migration (i.e., migrants, economic migrants, and refugees) on different helping orientations (e.g., dependency vs. autonomy-oriented helping) and if these effects occur via perceived intergroup threat, warmth and competence stereotypes. Participants (N = 304) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions (refugee vs. migrant vs. economic migrant) and read fabricated case vignettes, featuring a displaced person who arrived in Germany recently. Results showed that, as predicted, the use of different group labels affected the helping orientations of host society members, as well as, the stereotypes they held. No significant label effects were found for intergroup threat. While the label refugee evoked dependency-oriented helping intentions and triggered paternalistic stereotypes, the label economic migrants increased opposition to help, decreased help affirmation and evoked envious stereotypes. Practical implications to strengthen peaceful intergroup relations between host society members and newcomers are discussed. How to cite this article: Wyszynski MC, Guerra R, Bierwiaczonek K. Good refugees, bad migrants? Intergroup helping orientations toward refugees, migrants, and economic migrants in Germany.

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Changes in the Positivity of Migrant Stereotype Content

Cited by 31 publications

References 60 publications

Intergroup Relations During the Refugee Crisis: Individual and Cultural Stereotypes and Prejudices and Their Relationship With Behavior Toward Asylum Seekers

Intergroup Relations During the Refugee Crisis: Individual and Cultural Stereotypes and Prejudices and Their Relationship With Behavior Toward Asylum Seekers

Political solidarity: A theory and a measure

Good refugees, bad migrants? Intergroup helping orientations toward refugees, migrants, and economic migrants in Germany

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