‘Tell me what I want to hear’: Motivated recall and attributions in media regarding asylum seekers

Croston, Jared; Pedersen, Anne

doi:10.1111/ajpy.12012

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“…The null effect is also consistent with other emerging research in the area of priming and asylum seekers (e.g. Croston & Pedersen, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“There but for the grace of God go we”: Prejudice toward asylum seekers.

Pedersen¹,

Thomas²

2013

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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for collecting and inputting the data. Running head: Prejudice against asylum seekers to AustraliaKey words: Prejudice; racism; asylum seekers; refugees; empathy Bio: Anne Pedersen BA(Hons)., PhD.I have been an asylum seeker advocate for approximately ten years and have a keen interest in the integration of such advocacy with my academic work. I work as an applied social/peace/community psychologist in the School of Psychology and Exercise Science at Murdoch University, Western Australia. My main academic interests involve prejudice and anti-prejudice against different cultural groups; in particular, asylum seekers, Indigenous Australians and Muslim Australians. Bio: Emma ThomasBA/BPsyc (Hons)., PhD.I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology and Exercise Science at Murdoch University, Western Australia. My social psychological research focuses primarily on the role of emotion and social identity in promoting collective action for social change with particular application to humanitarian contexts (global poverty, humanitarian emergencies and the refugee crises). 2 AbstractAustralia receives relatively few asylum seekers but the public debate on this issue is intense and there is a widespread prejudice towards them. The current research considers the role of two approaches in explaining prejudice towards asylum seekers: similarity priming and affective reactions of empathy. Participants (N = 119) were primed that asylum seekers were either "similar" or "different" to them and asked whether these similarities/differences were important. Dispositional empathy and asylum seeker empathy were measured. Results showed that priming was associated with increased prejudice when priming involved similarity and those similarities were held to be important. Moreover, cognitive similarity priming and affective empathy contributed separately and additively to the prediction of prejudice. Qualitative responses to the priming question revealed that even when "difference" was primed, two out of the three prevalent themes were positive. Results are discussed in relation to understanding the cognitive and affective bases of empathy and prejudice, and practical implications for activists working to reduce prejudice towards asylum seekers.

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“…The null effect is also consistent with other emerging research in the area of priming and asylum seekers (e.g. Croston & Pedersen, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

“There but for the grace of God go we”: Prejudice toward asylum seekers.

Pedersen¹,

Thomas²

2013

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…Polls and studies conducted over the years have found that many Australians hold overtly negative attitudes towards asylum seekers. Findings testify to strong prejudice against the asylum seekers, accompanied by threat perceptions and the acceptance of false beliefs concerning the refugees’ goals, attitudes and behaviour ( Pedersen et al 2005 ; Croston and Pedersen 2013 ).…”

Section: Asylum Seekers In Australiamentioning

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Threatened or Threatening? How Ideology Shapes Asylum Seekers’ Immigration Policy Attitudes in Israel and Australia

Canetti

Snider

Pedersen

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Journal of Refugee Studies

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Can different political ideologies explain policy preferences regarding asylum seekers? We focus on attitudes regarding governmental policy towards out-group members and suggest that perceptions of threat help to shape these policy attitudes. Study 1 compared public opinion regarding asylum policy in Israel (N = 137) and Australia (N = 138), two countries with restrictive asylum policies and who host a large number of asylum seekers; Study 2, a longitudinal study, was conducted during two different time periods in Israel—before and during the Gaza conflict. Results of both studies showed that threat perceptions of out-group members drive the relationship between conservative political ideologies and support for exclusionary asylum policies among citizens. Perceptions of threat held by members of the host country (the in-group) towards asylum seekers (the out-group) may influence policy formation. The effect of these out-groups threats needs to be critically weighed when considering Israeli and Australian policies towards asylum seekers.

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“…Demographics, such as being male, having a lower level of education, and holding conservative political beliefs, relate to negative attitudes (Pedersen et al, ). Commonly held false beliefs play an important role in these attitudes, such as perceiving asylum seekers as “queue jumpers” or “cashed up,” as well as being “illegals” (i.e., the misconception that seeking asylum via boat arrival is illegal under Australian law; Croston & Pedersen, ; Pedersen et al, ). Despite some attempts to educate the public on the difficult plight of asylum seekers (e.g., O'Mahoney, ), much of the discourse surrounding this issue has promoted asylum seekers as calculating and opportunistic, or at extremes, as criminals or terrorists (Haslam & Holland, ).…”

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Preference for consistency and value dissimilarities in dehumanization and prejudice toward asylum seekers in Australia

Greenhalgh

Watt

2014

Euro J Social Psych

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Recent research has highlighted the importance of differential attribution of uniquely human characteristics in dehumanization and prejudice. Relatively little is known, however, about the importance of perceiving dissimilarities between the ingroup and outgroup in different types of values (beyond prosocial values), or the role of preference for consistency (PFC). This study investigated values, perceived dissimilarities in values, and PFC, in dehumanization of and prejudice toward asylum seekers in Australia. Results from a survey of 140 Australians revealed a strong relationship between dehumanization and prejudice. Individuals with stronger conservation and self-enhancement values, and greater perceived dissimilarity to asylum seekers on self-transcendence and self-enhancement values, dehumanized asylum seekers more and were more prejudiced toward them. The relationships between perceived self-transcendence and self-enhancement dissimilarities and prejudice were mediated by dehumanization, whereas PFC moderated the relationship between conservation value differences and dehumanization. These findings offer important insight into the conditions that promote dehumanization and prejudice, which may in turn help explain the negative perceptions of asylum seekers in Australia.

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‘Tell me what I want to hear’: Motivated recall and attributions in media regarding asylum seekers

Cited by 20 publications

References 45 publications

“There but for the grace of God go we”: Prejudice toward asylum seekers.

“There but for the grace of God go we”: Prejudice toward asylum seekers.

Threatened or Threatening? How Ideology Shapes Asylum Seekers’ Immigration Policy Attitudes in Israel and Australia

Preference for consistency and value dissimilarities in dehumanization and prejudice toward asylum seekers in Australia

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