A Igarashi
Biographic Data
| ID | 41870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Igarashi |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Igarashi |
| SIGNATURE | IGARASHI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Osaka University of Human Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1383-8035 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Do updates of group-level and individual-level information of ethnic minority applicants mitigate statistical discrimination in hiring?
Labor market discrimination against ethnic minority applicants remains persistent despite extensive research and policy interventions. While social scientists have thoroughly examined statistical discrimination—wherein employers rely on group-level information to infer candidates’ future productivity due to limited individual information in resumes—fundamental questions remain unanswered regarding the relative impact of different information type…
Do Muslim Citizens Welcome Fundamentalist Muslim Immigrants? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Kazakhstan
How do Muslim citizens respond to immigrants who hold fundamentalist interpretations of Islam? Although the social science literature has examined public perceptions of Muslim fundamentalists, it has primarily focused on Western liberal democracies. Consequently, we know relatively little about how Muslim citizens in Muslim-majority societies evaluate immigrants with extreme religious beliefs. To address this gap, this paper provides empirical ev…
Evolving trajectories of educational expectations and science performance during middle school and STEM degree attainment of youth in adulthood
Extensive research has established the positive relationship between youths’ educational expectations and academic performance. However, limited attention has been paid to how the developmental and growth trajectories of educational expectations may dynamically shape the development and growth in science performance during middle school—a critical period for fostering long-term STEM achievement. Leveraging longitudinal panel data from the second-…
ChatGPT versus humans in judging discriminatory scenarios: Experimental evidence from a Japanese context
Detecting and addressing discrimination is one of the most crucial ways for ethnic and sexual minorities and women to fully integrate into the society. However, humans often fail to correctly judge what constitutes discrimination. The recent rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) based on large language models (LLMs) has shown promise in assisting with this task, although its performance is understudied. This study investigates how hum…
The Potential of Survey Experiments in Family Sociology
サーベイ実験とは,質問紙上で行われる実験であり,回答者を異なる群にランダムに振り分けたり,提示する情報をランダムに変えることによって,回答者間の回答の違いを検証する方法である.社会科学の各分野において近年急速に発達しつつあるサーベイ実験だが,社会学では応用が比較的進んでいない.本稿では,サーベイ実験の代表的な手法を簡単に説明したうえで,家族社会学的な研究関心をもとに実施された研究例を提示し,理解を促す.またそれぞれの手法を家族社会学的な研究に応用する際の注意点や,家族社会学において特に有益な応用先や使い方も詳述する.扱う手法はビネット実験,コンジョイント分析,リスト実験,ランダマイズド・レスポンス・テクニック,媒介実験であり,それぞれの手法ならではの研究を紹介する
Voter Preferences for Ethnoracial Minority Candidates: The Role of Policy Alignment and Shared Identity
Existing research suggests that ethnoracial majority voters favor coethnic candidates over those from ethnoracial minorities due to stereotypical inferences about policy positions based on ethnic group and shared group identity. This study examines whether coethnic bias can be mitigated when ethnic minority candidates adopt policy positions favorable to ethnoracial majorities and share a common group identity with them. We conducted a pre-registe…
Keep It Abstract, Keep It Equal: Reconsidering Contextual Demands in Global Sociology
This paper examines the unequal expectations placed on sociological studies conducted in peripheral versus core contexts, particularly in relation to abstraction, contextual justification, and claims of transportability/generalizability. Drawing on a content analysis of articles published in American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology (2021–2025), I show that peripheral studies are disproportionately required to provide detaile…
Does social embeddedness shape attitudes toward migrants? Evidence from a survey experiment in the United Kingdom
How does migrants' social embeddedness influence non-migrants' attitudes? Although research on intergroup relations has considered the effects of various dimensions of migrants' lives, often measured by economic and cultural traits, social embeddedness, defined by the composition of interpersonal relationships, has received relatively less attention. We consider two types of social embeddedness and hypothesize that non-migrants will positively vi…
Do African Americans overreport or underreport their experiences of discrimination? Evidence from list experiments
Discrimination is one of the largest barriers that immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities face in contemporary society. Social scientists have developed and applied field experimental methods to detect the existence and prevalence of discrimination in various domains. In addition, researchers have utilized questionnaires to directly ask discrimination victims about their experiences and the frequency of discrimination they encounter. However, se…
Whose tastes matter? Discrimination against immigrants in the Japanese labour market
The existence and mechanisms of ethnic discrimination in hiring decisions have been extensively studied, but the following two gaps remain: non-Western societies and taste-based discrimination. In this contribution, we investigate whether ethnic discrimination and its mechanisms are similarly observable in the Japanese labour market. Additionally, to reflect Becker’s initial idea, we decompose the sources of taste-based discrimination into employ…
How do initial migrants choose their locations? Interregional migration in Japan from 1899 to 1938
What regional factors determine the size of the immigrant population in a region? Previous studies have identified the immigrant network in a region as a main determinant of immigrants' location choices. However, these studies have not answered the question of how the first groups of immigrants decided where to live in the absence of pre‐existing networks in the destination country. Using Japanese historical data from 1899 to 1938, I test how job…
The Dynamics of Immigration and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Japan: How and Why Changes in Immigrant Share Affect Attitudes toward Immigration in a Newly Diversifying Society
Extensive research investigates how immigration shapes natives’ anti-immigrant sentiment. However, several areas require further scrutiny. This paper explores how processes of immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment in a new immigration destination country—Japan—drawing on longitudinal data to examine these processes over time and explicitly testing the mechanisms of perceived threat and intergroup contact posited to underpin this relationshi…
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? To understand the causal mechanism behind this tendency among citizens, we conducted a vignette survey experiment that enables us to clarify the role of multiple mediators. We specifically focused on three key factors that have been proposed in existing research as those that could lead citizens to welcome high-skilled immigrants: expectations of economic contribution, welf…
Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan – Addendum
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Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan
Native allies are critical to the success of immigrants’ social movements in East Asian countries because of their relatively small number. However, it remains unclear whether advocacy messages from natives or from immigrants are more effective in changing natives’ attitudes toward supporting immigrant-oriented policies. We hypothesize, from the perspective of social identity theory, that the persuasiveness of a message varies, depending on the i…
Compatibility of ethnic and national identifications under multicultural policies
Immigrants' national and ethnic identifications have been assumed to contradict each other. However, while studies in psychology generally support this association, under the condition in which national identifications are conceptualized as inclusive, ethnic identifications do not necessarily contradict national identifications. I hypothesize that in a country where tolerant multicultural policies are introduced, immigrants' ethnic and national i…
Threats and Norms: Multicultural Policies and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Do multicultural policies affect natives’ attitudes toward immigrants? I investigate whether cross-country differences and within-country changes in multicultural policies are associated with natives’ negative attitudes toward immigrants and to whom the effects are noticeable. The results of multilevel longitudinal analysis indicate that neither cross-country differences nor within-country changes in multicultural policies are directly relevant t…
Norms to be prejudiced: List experiments on attitudes towards immigrants in Japan
Hate begets hate: Anti-refugee violence increases anti-refugee attitudes in Germany
How does ethnic violence affect the perpetrator group’s attitudes towards the victim group? Combining the security threat and ultimate attribution error, I expect that perpetrator group members react to security threats caused by ethnic violence to form negative attitudes towards the victim group. This study tests this hypothesis using the case of ethnic violence against refugees who came to Germany during the “migrant crisis” in 2015. Results sh…
How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases
Does increasing immigration affect natives’ attitudes towards immigrants? A significant volume of research has been conducted in Western contexts to explore this question. However, we know little about whether findings observed in Western societies translate to non-Western contexts. At the same time, there is a paucity of research into whether increasing immigration exerts differential-effects among different groups of individuals. Using Japanese…
The effects of negative and positive information on attitudes towards immigration
Existing research on immigration has highlighted the close relationship between the potential threat posed by immigrants and the development of anti‐immigrant sentiment among natives. However, immigrants also benefit the host society, and we know little about the effects of perceived benefits on attitudes towards immigration. We explore how exposure to negative and positive information about immigrants shapes people's attitudes towards immigrants…
Till multiculturalism do us part: Multicultural policies and the national identification of immigrants in European countries
Territorial Conflicts and Japanese Attitudes Towards East Asian Countries: Natural Experiments with Foreigners' Landings on Disputed Islands
Japan disputes the sovereignty of two islands: Senkaku/Diaoyu with China and Takeshima/Dokdo with South Korea. These disputes have triggered political performances. In August 2012, Chinese activists landed on Senkaku/Diaoyu, and South Korean politicians landed on Takeshima/Dokdo. The group threat theory suggests that these events constitute threats to Japanese citizens, which lead to negative attitudes towards these countries. The theory also exp…
Territorial Conflicts and Japanese Attitudes Towards East Asian Countries: Natural Experiments with Foreigners' Landings on Disputed Islands
Japan disputes the sovereignty of two islands: Senkaku/Diaoyu with China and Takeshima/Dokdo with South Korea. These disputes have triggered political performances. In August 2012, Chinese activists landed on Senkaku/Diaoyu, and South Korean politicians landed on Takeshima/Dokdo. The group threat theory suggests that these events constitute threats to Japanese citizens, which lead to negative attitudes towards these countries. The theory also exp…
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? To understand the causal mechanism behind this tendency among citizens, we conducted a vignette survey experiment that enables us to clarify the role of multiple mediators. We specifically focused on three key factors that have been proposed in existing research as those that could lead citizens to welcome high-skilled immigrants: expectations of economic contribution, welf…
How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases
Does increasing immigration affect natives’ attitudes towards immigrants? A significant volume of research has been conducted in Western contexts to explore this question. However, we know little about whether findings observed in Western societies translate to non-Western contexts. At the same time, there is a paucity of research into whether increasing immigration exerts differential-effects among different groups of individuals. Using Japanese…
Till multiculturalism do us part: Multicultural policies and the national identification of immigrants in European countries
Norms to be prejudiced: List experiments on attitudes towards immigrants in Japan
The effects of negative and positive information on attitudes towards immigration
Existing research on immigration has highlighted the close relationship between the potential threat posed by immigrants and the development of anti‐immigrant sentiment among natives. However, immigrants also benefit the host society, and we know little about the effects of perceived benefits on attitudes towards immigration. We explore how exposure to negative and positive information about immigrants shapes people's attitudes towards immigrants…
Do African Americans overreport or underreport their experiences of discrimination? Evidence from list experiments
Discrimination is one of the largest barriers that immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities face in contemporary society. Social scientists have developed and applied field experimental methods to detect the existence and prevalence of discrimination in various domains. In addition, researchers have utilized questionnaires to directly ask discrimination victims about their experiences and the frequency of discrimination they encounter. However, se…
Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan
Native allies are critical to the success of immigrants’ social movements in East Asian countries because of their relatively small number. However, it remains unclear whether advocacy messages from natives or from immigrants are more effective in changing natives’ attitudes toward supporting immigrant-oriented policies. We hypothesize, from the perspective of social identity theory, that the persuasiveness of a message varies, depending on the i…
Compatibility of ethnic and national identifications under multicultural policies
Immigrants' national and ethnic identifications have been assumed to contradict each other. However, while studies in psychology generally support this association, under the condition in which national identifications are conceptualized as inclusive, ethnic identifications do not necessarily contradict national identifications. I hypothesize that in a country where tolerant multicultural policies are introduced, immigrants' ethnic and national i…
Threats and Norms: Multicultural Policies and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Do multicultural policies affect natives’ attitudes toward immigrants? I investigate whether cross-country differences and within-country changes in multicultural policies are associated with natives’ negative attitudes toward immigrants and to whom the effects are noticeable. The results of multilevel longitudinal analysis indicate that neither cross-country differences nor within-country changes in multicultural policies are directly relevant t…
Does social embeddedness shape attitudes toward migrants? Evidence from a survey experiment in the United Kingdom
How does migrants' social embeddedness influence non-migrants' attitudes? Although research on intergroup relations has considered the effects of various dimensions of migrants' lives, often measured by economic and cultural traits, social embeddedness, defined by the composition of interpersonal relationships, has received relatively less attention. We consider two types of social embeddedness and hypothesize that non-migrants will positively vi…
Whose tastes matter? Discrimination against immigrants in the Japanese labour market
The existence and mechanisms of ethnic discrimination in hiring decisions have been extensively studied, but the following two gaps remain: non-Western societies and taste-based discrimination. In this contribution, we investigate whether ethnic discrimination and its mechanisms are similarly observable in the Japanese labour market. Additionally, to reflect Becker’s initial idea, we decompose the sources of taste-based discrimination into employ…
Territorial Conflicts and Japanese Attitudes Towards East Asian Countries: Natural Experiments with Foreigners' Landings on Disputed Islands
Japan disputes the sovereignty of two islands: Senkaku/Diaoyu with China and Takeshima/Dokdo with South Korea. These disputes have triggered political performances. In August 2012, Chinese activists landed on Senkaku/Diaoyu, and South Korean politicians landed on Takeshima/Dokdo. The group threat theory suggests that these events constitute threats to Japanese citizens, which lead to negative attitudes towards these countries. The theory also exp…
Till multiculturalism do us part: Multicultural policies and the national identification of immigrants in European countries
Hate begets hate: Anti-refugee violence increases anti-refugee attitudes in Germany
How does ethnic violence affect the perpetrator group’s attitudes towards the victim group? Combining the security threat and ultimate attribution error, I expect that perpetrator group members react to security threats caused by ethnic violence to form negative attitudes towards the victim group. This study tests this hypothesis using the case of ethnic violence against refugees who came to Germany during the “migrant crisis” in 2015. Results sh…
How does immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment, and who is affected most? A longitudinal analysis of the UK and Japan cases
Does increasing immigration affect natives’ attitudes towards immigrants? A significant volume of research has been conducted in Western contexts to explore this question. However, we know little about whether findings observed in Western societies translate to non-Western contexts. At the same time, there is a paucity of research into whether increasing immigration exerts differential-effects among different groups of individuals. Using Japanese…
The effects of negative and positive information on attitudes towards immigration
Existing research on immigration has highlighted the close relationship between the potential threat posed by immigrants and the development of anti‐immigrant sentiment among natives. However, immigrants also benefit the host society, and we know little about the effects of perceived benefits on attitudes towards immigration. We explore how exposure to negative and positive information about immigrants shapes people's attitudes towards immigrants…
How do initial migrants choose their locations? Interregional migration in Japan from 1899 to 1938
What regional factors determine the size of the immigrant population in a region? Previous studies have identified the immigrant network in a region as a main determinant of immigrants' location choices. However, these studies have not answered the question of how the first groups of immigrants decided where to live in the absence of pre‐existing networks in the destination country. Using Japanese historical data from 1899 to 1938, I test how job…
The Dynamics of Immigration and Anti-Immigrant Sentiment in Japan: How and Why Changes in Immigrant Share Affect Attitudes toward Immigration in a Newly Diversifying Society
Extensive research investigates how immigration shapes natives’ anti-immigrant sentiment. However, several areas require further scrutiny. This paper explores how processes of immigration affect anti-immigrant sentiment in a new immigration destination country—Japan—drawing on longitudinal data to examine these processes over time and explicitly testing the mechanisms of perceived threat and intergroup contact posited to underpin this relationshi…
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? Identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment
Why do citizens prefer high-skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? To understand the causal mechanism behind this tendency among citizens, we conducted a vignette survey experiment that enables us to clarify the role of multiple mediators. We specifically focused on three key factors that have been proposed in existing research as those that could lead citizens to welcome high-skilled immigrants: expectations of economic contribution, welf…
Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan – Addendum
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Who Should Call for Advocacies? The Influence of Rights Advocates on the Public's Attitude Toward Immigrants’ Voting Rights in Japan
Native allies are critical to the success of immigrants’ social movements in East Asian countries because of their relatively small number. However, it remains unclear whether advocacy messages from natives or from immigrants are more effective in changing natives’ attitudes toward supporting immigrant-oriented policies. We hypothesize, from the perspective of social identity theory, that the persuasiveness of a message varies, depending on the i…
Compatibility of ethnic and national identifications under multicultural policies
Immigrants' national and ethnic identifications have been assumed to contradict each other. However, while studies in psychology generally support this association, under the condition in which national identifications are conceptualized as inclusive, ethnic identifications do not necessarily contradict national identifications. I hypothesize that in a country where tolerant multicultural policies are introduced, immigrants' ethnic and national i…
Threats and Norms: Multicultural Policies and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Do multicultural policies affect natives’ attitudes toward immigrants? I investigate whether cross-country differences and within-country changes in multicultural policies are associated with natives’ negative attitudes toward immigrants and to whom the effects are noticeable. The results of multilevel longitudinal analysis indicate that neither cross-country differences nor within-country changes in multicultural policies are directly relevant t…
Norms to be prejudiced: List experiments on attitudes towards immigrants in Japan
Whose tastes matter? Discrimination against immigrants in the Japanese labour market
The existence and mechanisms of ethnic discrimination in hiring decisions have been extensively studied, but the following two gaps remain: non-Western societies and taste-based discrimination. In this contribution, we investigate whether ethnic discrimination and its mechanisms are similarly observable in the Japanese labour market. Additionally, to reflect Becker’s initial idea, we decompose the sources of taste-based discrimination into employ…
Evolving trajectories of educational expectations and science performance during middle school and STEM degree attainment of youth in adulthood
Extensive research has established the positive relationship between youths’ educational expectations and academic performance. However, limited attention has been paid to how the developmental and growth trajectories of educational expectations may dynamically shape the development and growth in science performance during middle school—a critical period for fostering long-term STEM achievement. Leveraging longitudinal panel data from the second-…
ChatGPT versus humans in judging discriminatory scenarios: Experimental evidence from a Japanese context
Detecting and addressing discrimination is one of the most crucial ways for ethnic and sexual minorities and women to fully integrate into the society. However, humans often fail to correctly judge what constitutes discrimination. The recent rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) based on large language models (LLMs) has shown promise in assisting with this task, although its performance is understudied. This study investigates how hum…
The Potential of Survey Experiments in Family Sociology
サーベイ実験とは,質問紙上で行われる実験であり,回答者を異なる群にランダムに振り分けたり,提示する情報をランダムに変えることによって,回答者間の回答の違いを検証する方法である.社会科学の各分野において近年急速に発達しつつあるサーベイ実験だが,社会学では応用が比較的進んでいない.本稿では,サーベイ実験の代表的な手法を簡単に説明したうえで,家族社会学的な研究関心をもとに実施された研究例を提示し,理解を促す.またそれぞれの手法を家族社会学的な研究に応用する際の注意点や,家族社会学において特に有益な応用先や使い方も詳述する.扱う手法はビネット実験,コンジョイント分析,リスト実験,ランダマイズド・レスポンス・テクニック,媒介実験であり,それぞれの手法ならではの研究を紹介する
Voter Preferences for Ethnoracial Minority Candidates: The Role of Policy Alignment and Shared Identity
Existing research suggests that ethnoracial majority voters favor coethnic candidates over those from ethnoracial minorities due to stereotypical inferences about policy positions based on ethnic group and shared group identity. This study examines whether coethnic bias can be mitigated when ethnic minority candidates adopt policy positions favorable to ethnoracial majorities and share a common group identity with them. We conducted a pre-registe…
Keep It Abstract, Keep It Equal: Reconsidering Contextual Demands in Global Sociology
This paper examines the unequal expectations placed on sociological studies conducted in peripheral versus core contexts, particularly in relation to abstraction, contextual justification, and claims of transportability/generalizability. Drawing on a content analysis of articles published in American Sociological Review and American Journal of Sociology (2021–2025), I show that peripheral studies are disproportionately required to provide detaile…
Does social embeddedness shape attitudes toward migrants? Evidence from a survey experiment in the United Kingdom
How does migrants' social embeddedness influence non-migrants' attitudes? Although research on intergroup relations has considered the effects of various dimensions of migrants' lives, often measured by economic and cultural traits, social embeddedness, defined by the composition of interpersonal relationships, has received relatively less attention. We consider two types of social embeddedness and hypothesize that non-migrants will positively vi…
Do African Americans overreport or underreport their experiences of discrimination? Evidence from list experiments
Discrimination is one of the largest barriers that immigrants and racial/ethnic minorities face in contemporary society. Social scientists have developed and applied field experimental methods to detect the existence and prevalence of discrimination in various domains. In addition, researchers have utilized questionnaires to directly ask discrimination victims about their experiences and the frequency of discrimination they encounter. However, se…
Do updates of group-level and individual-level information of ethnic minority applicants mitigate statistical discrimination in hiring?
Labor market discrimination against ethnic minority applicants remains persistent despite extensive research and policy interventions. While social scientists have thoroughly examined statistical discrimination—wherein employers rely on group-level information to infer candidates’ future productivity due to limited individual information in resumes—fundamental questions remain unanswered regarding the relative impact of different information type…
Do Muslim Citizens Welcome Fundamentalist Muslim Immigrants? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Kazakhstan
How do Muslim citizens respond to immigrants who hold fundamentalist interpretations of Islam? Although the social science literature has examined public perceptions of Muslim fundamentalists, it has primarily focused on Western liberal democracies. Consequently, we know relatively little about how Muslim citizens in Muslim-majority societies evaluate immigrants with extreme religious beliefs. To address this gap, this paper provides empirical ev…
Political science (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Immigration (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 works) · Demographic economics (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Ethnic group (6 works)