Disgust sensitivity and support for immigration across five nations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12062829 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clifford (0000-0002-9401-7481, corresponding author), Cengiz Erisen (0000-0001-9809-6087), Dane Wendell (0000-0002-0329-6519), Francisco Cantú (0000-0002-5189-8207) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-80 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics and the Life Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0730-9384 • E-ISSN: 1471-5457 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/pls.2022.6 |
| PMID | 37140224 |
| OpenAlex | W4214866815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 78 |
Immigration has become a focal debate in politics across the world. Recent research suggests that anti-immigration attitudes may have deep psychological roots in implicit disease avoidance motivations. A key implication of this theory is that individual differences in disease avoidance should be related to opposition to immigration across a wide variety of cultural and political contexts. However, existing evidence on the topic has come almost entirely from the United States and Canada. In this article, we test the disease avoidance hypothesis using nationally representative samples from Norway, Sweden, Turkey, and Mexico, as well as two diverse samples from the United States. We find consistent and robust evidence that disgust sensitivity is associated with anti-immigration attitudes and that the relationship is similar in magnitude to education. Overall, our findings support the disease avoidance hypothesis and provide new insights into the nature of anti-immigration attitudes
Development economics · Disease · Disgust · Economics · Immigration · Opposition (politics · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |