Donghyun Danny Choi
Biographic Data
| ID | 453767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donghyun Danny Choi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donghyun Danny |
| FAMILY NAME | Choi |
| SIGNATURE | CHOI D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0470-4158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization
How Oppositions Turn Authoritarian
Opposition victories after periods of democratic erosion are commonly portrayed as turning points that can help restore democracy. This essay argues that this optimism is often misplaced. An analysis of more than 40 elections in Africa since 1990 in which an opposition candidate defeated an autocratizing incumbent reveals that democracy stagnated or declined in half these cases. The authors attribute this pattern to two mutually reinforcing mecha…
Policymakers’ Abortion Preferences: Understanding the Intersection of Gender and Wealth
When are politicians willing to liberalize abortion laws? While restricted access to legal abortion affects millions of women around the world, there is relatively little understanding of the factors shaping the views of politicians who craft or uphold such restrictive laws. This study examines the impact of a public health framing commonly employed by activists to persuade politicians to reform abortion laws. We provide evidence that politicians…
Temperature and outgroup discrimination
High temperatures have been linked to aggression and different forms of conflict in humans. We consider whether exposure to heat waves increases discriminatory behavior toward outgroups. Using data from two large-scale field experiments in Germany, we find a direct causal effect of exposure to heat shocks on discrimination in helping behavior. As temperature rises, German natives faced with a choice to provide help to strangers in every-day inter…
The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants
Why do native Europeans discriminate against Muslim immigrants? Can shared ideas between natives and immigrants reduce discrimination? We hypothesize that natives' bias against Muslim immigrants is shaped by the belief that Muslims hold conservative attitudes about women's rights and this ideational basis for discrimination is more pronounced among native women. We test this hypothesis in a large‐scale field experiment conducted in 25 cities acro…
Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination against Immigrants
What drives anti-immigrant bias — and how it can be mitigated In the aftermath of the refugee crisis caused by conflicts in the Middle East and an increase in migration to Europe, European nations have witnessed a surge in discrimination targeted at immigrant minorities. To quell these conflicts, some governments have resorted to the adoption of coercive assimilation policies aimed at erasing differences between natives and immigrants. Are these …
Navigating “Insider” and “Outsider” Status as Researchers Conducting Field Experiments
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Increasing Intergroup Trust: Endorsements and Voting in Divided Societies
Can endorsements persuade voters to transcend politicized identity cleavages to support candidates from other groups? We argue that the persuasive power of cleavage-bridging endorsements depends on the ability of politicians to elicit in-group trust on behalf of out-group candidates. The activation of in-group trust increases the likelihood of voting for out-group candidates by changing both instrumental and affective assessments about the nature…
Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies
Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability and representation in democratizing countries. We argue that party switching is influenced by campaign costs tied to the clientelistic politics that persist in many such countries. Candidates who are expected to personally pay for their campaigns, including handouts for voters, will seek to affiliate with parties that can lower those costs through personal …
Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from Criminal Appeals in Kenya
Understanding sources of judicial bias is essential for establishing due process. To date, theories of judicial decision making are rooted in ranked societies with majority-minority group cleavages, leaving unanswered which groups are more prone to express bias and whether it is motivated by in-group favoritism or out-group hostility. We examine judicial bias in Kenya, a diverse society that features a more complex ethnic landscape. While researc…
Linguistic Assimilation Does Not Reduce Discrimination Against Immigrants: Evidence from Germany
Many western liberal democracies have witnessed increased discrimination against immigrants and opposition to multiculturalism. Prior research identifies ethno-linguistic differences between immigrant and native populations as the key source of such bias. Linguistic assimilation has therefore been proposed as an important mechanism to reduce discrimination and mitigate conflict between natives and immigrants. Using large-scale field experiments c…
Parochialism, social norms, and discrimination against immigrants
Significance As immigration increases due to globalization, wars, and climate change, there is more interaction between native and immigrant populations and more potential for conflict. Policymakers have emphasized the need to better integrate immigrants to forge a common set of norms concerning appropriate behavior. However, there is a lack of evidence to support the hypothesis that a shared understanding of norms can reduce discrimination. We p…
Fuzzy Sets on Shaky Ground: Parameter Sensitivity and Confirmation Bias in fsQCA
Scholars have increasingly turned to fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to conduct small- and medium-N studies, arguing that it combines the most desired elements of variable-oriented and case-oriented research. This article demonstrates, however, that fsQCA is an extraordinarily sensitive method whose results are worryingly susceptible to minor parametric and model specification changes. We make two specific claims. First, the ca…
The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants
Why do native Europeans discriminate against Muslim immigrants? Can shared ideas between natives and immigrants reduce discrimination? We hypothesize that natives' bias against Muslim immigrants is shaped by the belief that Muslims hold conservative attitudes about women's rights and this ideational basis for discrimination is more pronounced among native women. We test this hypothesis in a large‐scale field experiment conducted in 25 cities acro…
Fuzzy Sets on Shaky Ground: Parameter Sensitivity and Confirmation Bias in fsQCA
Scholars have increasingly turned to fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to conduct small- and medium-N studies, arguing that it combines the most desired elements of variable-oriented and case-oriented research. This article demonstrates, however, that fsQCA is an extraordinarily sensitive method whose results are worryingly susceptible to minor parametric and model specification changes. We make two specific claims. First, the ca…
Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies
Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability and representation in democratizing countries. We argue that party switching is influenced by campaign costs tied to the clientelistic politics that persist in many such countries. Candidates who are expected to personally pay for their campaigns, including handouts for voters, will seek to affiliate with parties that can lower those costs through personal …
Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from Criminal Appeals in Kenya
Understanding sources of judicial bias is essential for establishing due process. To date, theories of judicial decision making are rooted in ranked societies with majority-minority group cleavages, leaving unanswered which groups are more prone to express bias and whether it is motivated by in-group favoritism or out-group hostility. We examine judicial bias in Kenya, a diverse society that features a more complex ethnic landscape. While researc…
Increasing Intergroup Trust: Endorsements and Voting in Divided Societies
Can endorsements persuade voters to transcend politicized identity cleavages to support candidates from other groups? We argue that the persuasive power of cleavage-bridging endorsements depends on the ability of politicians to elicit in-group trust on behalf of out-group candidates. The activation of in-group trust increases the likelihood of voting for out-group candidates by changing both instrumental and affective assessments about the nature…
Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization
Navigating “Insider” and “Outsider” Status as Researchers Conducting Field Experiments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Linguistic Assimilation Does Not Reduce Discrimination Against Immigrants: Evidence from Germany
Many western liberal democracies have witnessed increased discrimination against immigrants and opposition to multiculturalism. Prior research identifies ethno-linguistic differences between immigrant and native populations as the key source of such bias. Linguistic assimilation has therefore been proposed as an important mechanism to reduce discrimination and mitigate conflict between natives and immigrants. Using large-scale field experiments c…
Policymakers’ Abortion Preferences: Understanding the Intersection of Gender and Wealth
When are politicians willing to liberalize abortion laws? While restricted access to legal abortion affects millions of women around the world, there is relatively little understanding of the factors shaping the views of politicians who craft or uphold such restrictive laws. This study examines the impact of a public health framing commonly employed by activists to persuade politicians to reform abortion laws. We provide evidence that politicians…
Fuzzy Sets on Shaky Ground: Parameter Sensitivity and Confirmation Bias in fsQCA
Scholars have increasingly turned to fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to conduct small- and medium-N studies, arguing that it combines the most desired elements of variable-oriented and case-oriented research. This article demonstrates, however, that fsQCA is an extraordinarily sensitive method whose results are worryingly susceptible to minor parametric and model specification changes. We make two specific claims. First, the ca…
Parochialism, social norms, and discrimination against immigrants
Significance As immigration increases due to globalization, wars, and climate change, there is more interaction between native and immigrant populations and more potential for conflict. Policymakers have emphasized the need to better integrate immigrants to forge a common set of norms concerning appropriate behavior. However, there is a lack of evidence to support the hypothesis that a shared understanding of norms can reduce discrimination. We p…
Linguistic Assimilation Does Not Reduce Discrimination Against Immigrants: Evidence from Germany
Many western liberal democracies have witnessed increased discrimination against immigrants and opposition to multiculturalism. Prior research identifies ethno-linguistic differences between immigrant and native populations as the key source of such bias. Linguistic assimilation has therefore been proposed as an important mechanism to reduce discrimination and mitigate conflict between natives and immigrants. Using large-scale field experiments c…
Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination against Immigrants
What drives anti-immigrant bias — and how it can be mitigated In the aftermath of the refugee crisis caused by conflicts in the Middle East and an increase in migration to Europe, European nations have witnessed a surge in discrimination targeted at immigrant minorities. To quell these conflicts, some governments have resorted to the adoption of coercive assimilation policies aimed at erasing differences between natives and immigrants. Are these …
Navigating “Insider” and “Outsider” Status as Researchers Conducting Field Experiments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Increasing Intergroup Trust: Endorsements and Voting in Divided Societies
Can endorsements persuade voters to transcend politicized identity cleavages to support candidates from other groups? We argue that the persuasive power of cleavage-bridging endorsements depends on the ability of politicians to elicit in-group trust on behalf of out-group candidates. The activation of in-group trust increases the likelihood of voting for out-group candidates by changing both instrumental and affective assessments about the nature…
Paying to party: Candidate resources and party switching in new democracies
Party switching among legislative candidates has important implications for accountability and representation in democratizing countries. We argue that party switching is influenced by campaign costs tied to the clientelistic politics that persist in many such countries. Candidates who are expected to personally pay for their campaigns, including handouts for voters, will seek to affiliate with parties that can lower those costs through personal …
Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision Making: Evidence from Criminal Appeals in Kenya
Understanding sources of judicial bias is essential for establishing due process. To date, theories of judicial decision making are rooted in ranked societies with majority-minority group cleavages, leaving unanswered which groups are more prone to express bias and whether it is motivated by in-group favoritism or out-group hostility. We examine judicial bias in Kenya, a diverse society that features a more complex ethnic landscape. While researc…
Temperature and outgroup discrimination
High temperatures have been linked to aggression and different forms of conflict in humans. We consider whether exposure to heat waves increases discriminatory behavior toward outgroups. Using data from two large-scale field experiments in Germany, we find a direct causal effect of exposure to heat shocks on discrimination in helping behavior. As temperature rises, German natives faced with a choice to provide help to strangers in every-day inter…
The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants
Why do native Europeans discriminate against Muslim immigrants? Can shared ideas between natives and immigrants reduce discrimination? We hypothesize that natives' bias against Muslim immigrants is shaped by the belief that Muslims hold conservative attitudes about women's rights and this ideational basis for discrimination is more pronounced among native women. We test this hypothesis in a large‐scale field experiment conducted in 25 cities acro…
Couples Therapy for a Divided America: Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization
How Oppositions Turn Authoritarian
Opposition victories after periods of democratic erosion are commonly portrayed as turning points that can help restore democracy. This essay argues that this optimism is often misplaced. An analysis of more than 40 elections in Africa since 1990 in which an opposition candidate defeated an autocratizing incumbent reveals that democracy stagnated or declined in half these cases. The authors attribute this pattern to two mutually reinforcing mecha…
Policymakers’ Abortion Preferences: Understanding the Intersection of Gender and Wealth
When are politicians willing to liberalize abortion laws? While restricted access to legal abortion affects millions of women around the world, there is relatively little understanding of the factors shaping the views of politicians who craft or uphold such restrictive laws. This study examines the impact of a public health framing commonly employed by activists to persuade politicians to reform abortion laws. We provide evidence that politicians…
Political science (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)