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The effects of feeling threatened on attitudes toward immigrants.
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This paper examined the causal role that threats play in attitudes toward immigrants and found that negative stereotypes led to significantly more negative attitudes toward the immigrant group than the other types of stereotypes, while empathic with the foreign exchange students reduced these negative attitudes.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Intercultural Relations.The article was published on 2005-01-01. It has received 394 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Integrated threat theory & Intergroup anxiety.read more
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The relationship between outgroup size and anti-outgroup attitudes: A theoretical synthesis and empirical test of group threat- and intergroup contact theory
Elmar Schlueter,Peer Scheepers +1 more
TL;DR: This article used group threat and intergroup contact theory to derive competing hypotheses on the role the size of the immigrant population plays for explaining the anti-immigrant attitudes of Dutch citizens, and found empirical evidence for both group threat- and inter-group contact theories.
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The Nature of Contemporary Prejudice: Insights from Aversive Racism
TL;DR: The authors argue that current racial attitudes of Whites toward Blacks in the United States are fundamentally ambivalent, characterized by a widespread contemporary form of racial prejudice, aversive racism, that is manifested in subtle and indirect ways and illustrate its operation across a wide range of settings, from employment and legal decisions, to group problem-solving and everyday helping behavior.
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The Global Refugee Crisis: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications for Improving Public Attitudes and Facilitating Refugee Resettlement
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the literature on determinants of public attitudes toward refugees, the acculturation of refugees in host societies, and factors affecting refugee mental health, all of which are directly relevant to the success of the resettlement process.
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Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students’ perspectives on ‘internationalisation at home’
Neil Harrison,Nicola Peacock +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the question of interaction between home and international students using qualitative data from 100 home students at two 'teaching intensive' universities in the southwest of England, finding evidence for all four types of threat that they predict when outgroups interact.
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Right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation and the dimensions of generalized prejudice: A longitudinal test
TL;DR: The authors assessed the causal effects of SDO and RWA on three dimensions of prejudice using a full cross-lagged longitudinal sample (N = 127) and found that different forms of prejudice result from different SDO-and RWA-based motivational processes.
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The Nature of Prejudice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the dynamics of prejudgment, including: Frustration, Aggression and Hatred, Anxiety, Sex, and Guilt, Demagogy, and Tolerant Personality.
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The Nature of Prejudice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the dynamics of prejudgment, including: Frustration, Aggression and Hatred, Anxiety, Sex, and Guilt, Demagogy, and Tolerant Personality.
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The functions of social conflict
TL;DR: In this article, a set of socio-political documents from China, Palestine, USA, South Africa, and Great Britain is presented, focusing on issues of ethnicity, unemployment, immigration, colour prejudice, social mobility, new elites and class formation.