Burak Sonmez
Biographic Data
| ID | 239755 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Burak Sonmez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Burak |
| FAMILY NAME | Sonmez |
| SIGNATURE | SONMEZ B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2335-566X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perceived threat drives support for coercive border enforcement against unauthorized crossings
The securitization of the borders has intensified through harsh enforcement and deterrence strategies, yet little is known about what factors drive public approval of such measures. Using a large-scale survey experiment, we examine the extent to which the US public condones Border Patrol’s violent response to unauthorized border crossings. We find that the approval of violence is driven by perceived threats: respondents are more likely to support…
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions
Public pressure to take punitive action against human rights violators is often a driving force behind international sanctions. However, we know little about the way in which public support is shaped by varying types of abuse, the costs and effectiveness of sanctions and the differential harm they inflict upon the target population and leadership. Our study specifically addresses this gap by unpicking contextual factors that jointly sway the perc…
Trust and Strength of Family Ties
We provide a conceptual replication of an experimental study that uncovered a robust correlation between the strength of individuals’ family ties and their distrust of strangers, striving to establish whether the link is causal. Using a different subjects pool and an online setting, we repeat the binary trust-game experiment from Ermisch and Gambetta and enrich it by manipulating the payoffs to create a low-trust and high-trust environment. The k…
Other-Regarding Behaviors and Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers
Previous studies predominantly examined self-reported attitudes toward economic migrants and refugees along with different types of public concerns. Few of these studies used behavioral measures to analyze how asylum seeker inflows may sway public preferences toward them. However, the literature remains largely silent on the issue as to how correcting misperceptions of asylum seeker inflows may improve a host population's support for them. The au…
The Effect of Trusting and Trustworthy Environments on the Provision of Public Goods
Trusting and trustworthy environments are argued to promote collective action, as people learn to rely on their fellow citizens and believe that only few individuals will free ride. To test the causal validity of this mechanism, we propose an experimental design that allows us to create different trusting and trustworthy conditions simply by (i) manipulating the incentive structure of an iterated binary trust game and (ii) allowing information to…
The Effect of Trusting and Trustworthy Environments on the Provision of Public Goods
Trusting and trustworthy environments are argued to promote collective action, as people learn to rely on their fellow citizens and believe that only few individuals will free ride. To test the causal validity of this mechanism, we propose an experimental design that allows us to create different trusting and trustworthy conditions simply by (i) manipulating the incentive structure of an iterated binary trust game and (ii) allowing information to…
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions
Public pressure to take punitive action against human rights violators is often a driving force behind international sanctions. However, we know little about the way in which public support is shaped by varying types of abuse, the costs and effectiveness of sanctions and the differential harm they inflict upon the target population and leadership. Our study specifically addresses this gap by unpicking contextual factors that jointly sway the perc…
Trust and Strength of Family Ties
We provide a conceptual replication of an experimental study that uncovered a robust correlation between the strength of individuals’ family ties and their distrust of strangers, striving to establish whether the link is causal. Using a different subjects pool and an online setting, we repeat the binary trust-game experiment from Ermisch and Gambetta and enrich it by manipulating the payoffs to create a low-trust and high-trust environment. The k…
Other-Regarding Behaviors and Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers
Previous studies predominantly examined self-reported attitudes toward economic migrants and refugees along with different types of public concerns. Few of these studies used behavioral measures to analyze how asylum seeker inflows may sway public preferences toward them. However, the literature remains largely silent on the issue as to how correcting misperceptions of asylum seeker inflows may improve a host population's support for them. The au…
The Effect of Trusting and Trustworthy Environments on the Provision of Public Goods
Trusting and trustworthy environments are argued to promote collective action, as people learn to rely on their fellow citizens and believe that only few individuals will free ride. To test the causal validity of this mechanism, we propose an experimental design that allows us to create different trusting and trustworthy conditions simply by (i) manipulating the incentive structure of an iterated binary trust game and (ii) allowing information to…
Other-Regarding Behaviors and Attitudes toward Asylum Seekers
Previous studies predominantly examined self-reported attitudes toward economic migrants and refugees along with different types of public concerns. Few of these studies used behavioral measures to analyze how asylum seeker inflows may sway public preferences toward them. However, the literature remains largely silent on the issue as to how correcting misperceptions of asylum seeker inflows may improve a host population's support for them. The au…
Trust and Strength of Family Ties
We provide a conceptual replication of an experimental study that uncovered a robust correlation between the strength of individuals’ family ties and their distrust of strangers, striving to establish whether the link is causal. Using a different subjects pool and an online setting, we repeat the binary trust-game experiment from Ermisch and Gambetta and enrich it by manipulating the payoffs to create a low-trust and high-trust environment. The k…
Human rights violations and public support for sanctions
Public pressure to take punitive action against human rights violators is often a driving force behind international sanctions. However, we know little about the way in which public support is shaped by varying types of abuse, the costs and effectiveness of sanctions and the differential harm they inflict upon the target population and leadership. Our study specifically addresses this gap by unpicking contextual factors that jointly sway the perc…
Perceived threat drives support for coercive border enforcement against unauthorized crossings
The securitization of the borders has intensified through harsh enforcement and deterrence strategies, yet little is known about what factors drive public approval of such measures. Using a large-scale survey experiment, we examine the extent to which the US public condones Border Patrol’s violent response to unauthorized border crossings. We find that the approval of violence is driven by perceived threats: respondents are more likely to support…
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)