Cara Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3702240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cara Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cara |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0152-037X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 938 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology
A Two-Path Theory of Context Effects: Pseudoenvironments and Social Cohesion
Social cohesion suffers when people perceive that they live among others who differ from them, even if such people live in homogeneous neighborhoods. This article shows that (1) two individuals who live in equally diverse local contexts may not perceive the same amount of diversity in that context, nor think of the boundaries of their local community in the same way; and (2) when comparing two individuals who live in equally diverse local context…
What can dual citizens teach us about political engagement
While we witness historic changes taking place in the conception and practice of citizenship, we know little about the political consequences it may bring. What are the effects of citizenship, as a status and a process, on political engagement? To gain leverage in addressing this question, we draw on citizenship categories that combine birthplace and the number of citizenship held. We compare US-born dual citizens to both naturalized-dual citizen…
Ballots beyond borders: Attitudes towards external voting in Colombia
Elected Officials, Empowered Voters: The Impact of Descriptive Representation on Voter Turnout
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes
Selection bias represents a persistent challenge to understanding the effects of social context on political attitudes. We attempt to overcome this challenge by focusing on a unique sample of individuals who were assigned to a new social context for an extended period, without control over the location they were sent: missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We interviewed a sample of 1,804 young people before and after t…
The Value of Citizenship and Service to the Nation
Cara Wong a, Jonathan Bonaguro b, The Value of Citizenship and Service to the Nation, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century (November 2020), pp. 96-116
Maps in People’s Heads: Assessing a New Measure of Context
To understand the relationship between place and politics, we must measure both political attitudes and the ways in which place is represented in the minds of individuals. In this paper, we assess a new measure of mental representation of geography, in which survey respondents draw their own local communities on maps and describe them. We use a panel study in Canada to present evidence that these maps are both valid and reliable measures of a per…
Social Science
Social Science Hung Cam Thai, chair, Anthony Ocampo, and Cara Wong The committee unanimously and enthusiastically selected Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's The Asian American Achievement Paradox (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015) for the 2017 Asian American Studies Best Book Award in the Social Sciences. This theoretical breakthrough book offers rigorous empirical evidence, analytical sophistication, and remarkable intervention in national conversations …
Visual field asymmetries in object individuation
An examination of the demographic predictors of adolescent breakfast consumption, content, and context
This study provides a comprehensive examination of the factors underlying breakfast consumption (content and context) and has important implications for the development of evidence-based interventions to improve rates of breakfast consumption and the quality of food consumed amongst adolescents
Would We Know ‘Integration’ If We Were to See It? Measurement and The Imperative of Integration
These comments in response to Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration focus on the problems of measurement that arise from the next step of putting her theory of integration into practice. In fact, thinking about measurement helps us with the theory as well, since it highlights issues that may not have seemed as central or salient at first glance. Contemplating the units of analysis used in the measurement of segregation, how to measur…
Racism, Group Position, and Attitudes About Immigration Among Blacks and Whites1
Previous research has shown that racial or ethnic prejudice is one of the most influential antecedents of opposition to more expansive immigration policies. In this paper, we explore whether a theoretical perspective derived from the group position model might represent an additional and complementary explanation for immigration attitudes. We also compare how well the prejudice and group position models explain immigration attitudes among both Wh…
Predicting adolescent breakfast consumption in the UK and Australia using an extended theory of planned behaviour
Boundaries of Obligation in American Politics: Geographic, National, and Racial Communities
Bringing the Person Back In: Boundaries, Perceptions, and the Measurement of Racial Context
Place is sometimes vague or undefined in studies of context, and scholars use a range of Census units to measure “context.” In this article, we borrow from Parsons and Shils to offer a conceptualization of context. This conceptualization, and a recognition of both Lippmann’s pseudoenvironments and the statistical Modifiable Areal Unit Problem, lead us to a new measurement strategy. We propose a map-based measure to capture how ordinary people use…
Hygienic food handling behaviours. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Little" and "Big" Pictures in Our Heads: Race, Local Context, and Innumeracy About Racial Groups in the United States
Journal Article "Little" and "Big" Pictures in Our Heads: Race, Local Context, and Innumeracy About Racial Groups in the United States Get access Cara J. Wong Cara J. Wong Address correspondence to Cara J. Wong; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 3, Fall 2007, Pages 392–412, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfm023 Published: 11 August 2007
Who Fights: Substitution, Commutation, and “Green Card Troops
In discussions of political obligation, it is commonly assumed that duties follow from citizenship. However, the performance of a duty by aliens can lead to citizenship status in at least one critical case: service by noncitizen soldiers. While politicians and pundits recently have called citizenship a just reward for bearing arms and these "green card troops" another example of immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States, there is a good dea…
Racial Threat”, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy: Contextual Effects in Three California Initiatives
Two‐Headed Coins or Kandinskys: White Racial Identification
Racial identity means different things to members of different racial and ethnic groups in the United States. However, while the study of race and politics is often the study of White racial attitudes (Dawson & Cohen, 2003), research on racial identity almost always refers to non‐White identity. This article addresses this hole in the literature by examining the extent and effects of White identity. We compare White identification and Black ident…
The Meaning of American National Identity: Patterns of Ethnic Conflict and Consensus
National identity is one among many often co-existing and overlapping social identities, including territorial, racial, religious, linguistic, and gender identities. The psychological task for individuals is to order and integrate their different collective “selves” (Ashmore & Jussim, 1997). The political task for government is to balance the need for national unity with the competing claims of other group identities. In modern society, emphasizi…
Multiculturalism in American Public Opinion
Multiculturalism has emerged to challenge liberalism as an ideological solution in coping with ethnic diversity in the United States. This article develops a definition of political multiculturalism which refers to conceptions of identity, community and public policy. It then analyses the 1994 General Social Survey and a 1994 survey of Los Angeles County to assess the contours of mass support and opposition to multiculturalism, testing hypotheses…
Public Opinion Toward Immigration Reform: The Role of Economic Motivations
This paper tests hypotheses concerning the effects of economic factors on public opinion toward immigration policy Using the 1992 and 1994 National Election Study surveys, probit models are employed to test diverse conceptualizations of the effects of economic adversity and anxiety on opposition to immigration The results indicate that personal economic circumstances play little role in opinion formation, but beliefs about the state of the nation…
Public Opinion Toward Immigration Reform: The Role of Economic Motivations
This paper tests hypotheses concerning the effects of economic factors on public opinion toward immigration policy Using the 1992 and 1994 National Election Study surveys, probit models are employed to test diverse conceptualizations of the effects of economic adversity and anxiety on opposition to immigration The results indicate that personal economic circumstances play little role in opinion formation, but beliefs about the state of the nation…
Little" and "Big" Pictures in Our Heads: Race, Local Context, and Innumeracy About Racial Groups in the United States
Journal Article "Little" and "Big" Pictures in Our Heads: Race, Local Context, and Innumeracy About Racial Groups in the United States Get access Cara J. Wong Cara J. Wong Address correspondence to Cara J. Wong; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 3, Fall 2007, Pages 392–412, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfm023 Published: 11 August 2007
Racial Threat”, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy: Contextual Effects in Three California Initiatives
Bringing the Person Back In: Boundaries, Perceptions, and the Measurement of Racial Context
Place is sometimes vague or undefined in studies of context, and scholars use a range of Census units to measure “context.” In this article, we borrow from Parsons and Shils to offer a conceptualization of context. This conceptualization, and a recognition of both Lippmann’s pseudoenvironments and the statistical Modifiable Areal Unit Problem, lead us to a new measurement strategy. We propose a map-based measure to capture how ordinary people use…
Multiculturalism in American Public Opinion
Multiculturalism has emerged to challenge liberalism as an ideological solution in coping with ethnic diversity in the United States. This article develops a definition of political multiculturalism which refers to conceptions of identity, community and public policy. It then analyses the 1994 General Social Survey and a 1994 survey of Los Angeles County to assess the contours of mass support and opposition to multiculturalism, testing hypotheses…
Two‐Headed Coins or Kandinskys: White Racial Identification
Racial identity means different things to members of different racial and ethnic groups in the United States. However, while the study of race and politics is often the study of White racial attitudes (Dawson & Cohen, 2003), research on racial identity almost always refers to non‐White identity. This article addresses this hole in the literature by examining the extent and effects of White identity. We compare White identification and Black ident…
Racism, Group Position, and Attitudes About Immigration Among Blacks and Whites1
Previous research has shown that racial or ethnic prejudice is one of the most influential antecedents of opposition to more expansive immigration policies. In this paper, we explore whether a theoretical perspective derived from the group position model might represent an additional and complementary explanation for immigration attitudes. We also compare how well the prejudice and group position models explain immigration attitudes among both Wh…
Maps in People’s Heads: Assessing a New Measure of Context
To understand the relationship between place and politics, we must measure both political attitudes and the ways in which place is represented in the minds of individuals. In this paper, we assess a new measure of mental representation of geography, in which survey respondents draw their own local communities on maps and describe them. We use a panel study in Canada to present evidence that these maps are both valid and reliable measures of a per…
Who Fights: Substitution, Commutation, and “Green Card Troops
In discussions of political obligation, it is commonly assumed that duties follow from citizenship. However, the performance of a duty by aliens can lead to citizenship status in at least one critical case: service by noncitizen soldiers. While politicians and pundits recently have called citizenship a just reward for bearing arms and these "green card troops" another example of immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States, there is a good dea…
Elected Officials, Empowered Voters: The Impact of Descriptive Representation on Voter Turnout
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes
Selection bias represents a persistent challenge to understanding the effects of social context on political attitudes. We attempt to overcome this challenge by focusing on a unique sample of individuals who were assigned to a new social context for an extended period, without control over the location they were sent: missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We interviewed a sample of 1,804 young people before and after t…
Predicting adolescent breakfast consumption in the UK and Australia using an extended theory of planned behaviour
Hygienic food handling behaviours. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
The Value of Citizenship and Service to the Nation
Cara Wong a, Jonathan Bonaguro b, The Value of Citizenship and Service to the Nation, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century (November 2020), pp. 96-116
Public Opinion Toward Immigration Reform: The Role of Economic Motivations
This paper tests hypotheses concerning the effects of economic factors on public opinion toward immigration policy Using the 1992 and 1994 National Election Study surveys, probit models are employed to test diverse conceptualizations of the effects of economic adversity and anxiety on opposition to immigration The results indicate that personal economic circumstances play little role in opinion formation, but beliefs about the state of the nation…
The Meaning of American National Identity: Patterns of Ethnic Conflict and Consensus
National identity is one among many often co-existing and overlapping social identities, including territorial, racial, religious, linguistic, and gender identities. The psychological task for individuals is to order and integrate their different collective “selves” (Ashmore & Jussim, 1997). The political task for government is to balance the need for national unity with the competing claims of other group identities. In modern society, emphasizi…
Multiculturalism in American Public Opinion
Multiculturalism has emerged to challenge liberalism as an ideological solution in coping with ethnic diversity in the United States. This article develops a definition of political multiculturalism which refers to conceptions of identity, community and public policy. It then analyses the 1994 General Social Survey and a 1994 survey of Los Angeles County to assess the contours of mass support and opposition to multiculturalism, testing hypotheses…
Two‐Headed Coins or Kandinskys: White Racial Identification
Racial identity means different things to members of different racial and ethnic groups in the United States. However, while the study of race and politics is often the study of White racial attitudes (Dawson & Cohen, 2003), research on racial identity almost always refers to non‐White identity. This article addresses this hole in the literature by examining the extent and effects of White identity. We compare White identification and Black ident…
Racial Threat”, Partisan Climate, and Direct Democracy: Contextual Effects in Three California Initiatives
Little" and "Big" Pictures in Our Heads: Race, Local Context, and Innumeracy About Racial Groups in the United States
Journal Article "Little" and "Big" Pictures in Our Heads: Race, Local Context, and Innumeracy About Racial Groups in the United States Get access Cara J. Wong Cara J. Wong Address correspondence to Cara J. Wong; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 71, Issue 3, Fall 2007, Pages 392–412, https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfm023 Published: 11 August 2007
Who Fights: Substitution, Commutation, and “Green Card Troops
In discussions of political obligation, it is commonly assumed that duties follow from citizenship. However, the performance of a duty by aliens can lead to citizenship status in at least one critical case: service by noncitizen soldiers. While politicians and pundits recently have called citizenship a just reward for bearing arms and these "green card troops" another example of immigrant entrepreneurship in the United States, there is a good dea…
Hygienic food handling behaviours. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour
Boundaries of Obligation in American Politics: Geographic, National, and Racial Communities
Bringing the Person Back In: Boundaries, Perceptions, and the Measurement of Racial Context
Place is sometimes vague or undefined in studies of context, and scholars use a range of Census units to measure “context.” In this article, we borrow from Parsons and Shils to offer a conceptualization of context. This conceptualization, and a recognition of both Lippmann’s pseudoenvironments and the statistical Modifiable Areal Unit Problem, lead us to a new measurement strategy. We propose a map-based measure to capture how ordinary people use…
Predicting adolescent breakfast consumption in the UK and Australia using an extended theory of planned behaviour
An examination of the demographic predictors of adolescent breakfast consumption, content, and context
This study provides a comprehensive examination of the factors underlying breakfast consumption (content and context) and has important implications for the development of evidence-based interventions to improve rates of breakfast consumption and the quality of food consumed amongst adolescents
Would We Know ‘Integration’ If We Were to See It? Measurement and The Imperative of Integration
These comments in response to Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative of Integration focus on the problems of measurement that arise from the next step of putting her theory of integration into practice. In fact, thinking about measurement helps us with the theory as well, since it highlights issues that may not have seemed as central or salient at first glance. Contemplating the units of analysis used in the measurement of segregation, how to measur…
Racism, Group Position, and Attitudes About Immigration Among Blacks and Whites1
Previous research has shown that racial or ethnic prejudice is one of the most influential antecedents of opposition to more expansive immigration policies. In this paper, we explore whether a theoretical perspective derived from the group position model might represent an additional and complementary explanation for immigration attitudes. We also compare how well the prejudice and group position models explain immigration attitudes among both Wh…
Visual field asymmetries in object individuation
Social Science
Social Science Hung Cam Thai, chair, Anthony Ocampo, and Cara Wong The committee unanimously and enthusiastically selected Jennifer Lee and Min Zhou's The Asian American Achievement Paradox (Russell Sage Foundation, 2015) for the 2017 Asian American Studies Best Book Award in the Social Sciences. This theoretical breakthrough book offers rigorous empirical evidence, analytical sophistication, and remarkable intervention in national conversations …
The Value of Citizenship and Service to the Nation
Cara Wong a, Jonathan Bonaguro b, The Value of Citizenship and Service to the Nation, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 3, The Legal Landscape of U.S. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century (November 2020), pp. 96-116
Maps in People’s Heads: Assessing a New Measure of Context
To understand the relationship between place and politics, we must measure both political attitudes and the ways in which place is represented in the minds of individuals. In this paper, we assess a new measure of mental representation of geography, in which survey respondents draw their own local communities on maps and describe them. We use a panel study in Canada to present evidence that these maps are both valid and reliable measures of a per…
How Social Context Affects Immigration Attitudes
Selection bias represents a persistent challenge to understanding the effects of social context on political attitudes. We attempt to overcome this challenge by focusing on a unique sample of individuals who were assigned to a new social context for an extended period, without control over the location they were sent: missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We interviewed a sample of 1,804 young people before and after t…
Elected Officials, Empowered Voters: The Impact of Descriptive Representation on Voter Turnout
Handbook of Innovations in Political Psychology
A Two-Path Theory of Context Effects: Pseudoenvironments and Social Cohesion
Social cohesion suffers when people perceive that they live among others who differ from them, even if such people live in homogeneous neighborhoods. This article shows that (1) two individuals who live in equally diverse local contexts may not perceive the same amount of diversity in that context, nor think of the boundaries of their local community in the same way; and (2) when comparing two individuals who live in equally diverse local context…
What can dual citizens teach us about political engagement
While we witness historic changes taking place in the conception and practice of citizenship, we know little about the political consequences it may bring. What are the effects of citizenship, as a status and a process, on political engagement? To gain leverage in addressing this question, we draw on citizenship categories that combine birthplace and the number of citizenship held. We compare US-born dual citizens to both naturalized-dual citizen…
Ballots beyond borders: Attitudes towards external voting in Colombia
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