Family Matters
How Immigrant Histories Can Promote Inclusion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3578752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sean Williamson (0000-0003-0769-6197, New York University, corresponding author), Claire L Adida (0000-0002-3493-5539, University of California San Diego, corresponding author), Adeline Lo (0000-0001-5791-5541, University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author), Melina R Platas (0000-0002-5503-1029, New York University, corresponding author), Lauren Prather (0000-0002-9043-0033, University of California San Diego, corresponding author), Seth H Werfel (0000-0001-8949-0533, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 115 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 686-693 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055420001057 |
| OpenAlex | W3115417475 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
| References cited | 30 |
Immigration is a highly polarized issue in the United States, and negative attitudes toward immigrants are common. Yet, almost all Americans are descended from people who originated outside the country, a narrative often evoked by the media and taught in school curricula. Can this narrative increase inclusionary attitudes toward migrants? We draw from scholarship showing that perspective-taking decreases prejudice toward out-groups to investigate whether reminding Americans about their own immigration history increases support for immigrants and immigration. We propose that priming family experiences can indirectly stimulate perspective-taking and induce empathy toward the out-group, which we test with three separate survey experiments conducted over two years. Our findings show that priming family history generates small but consistent inclusionary effects. These effects occur even among partisan subgroups and Americans who approve of President Trump. We provide evidence that increased empathy for immigrants constitutes one mechanism driving these effects
Empathy · Immigration · Inclusion (mineral · Narrative · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Prejudice (legal term · Priming (agriculture · Scholarship · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
Education for Mobilization
Unequal Democracies
A very particular set of skills
Why Do Deliberative Discussions Reduce Affective Polarization? Evidence from a Deliberation Experiment in Honduras
Less prejudiced but still not intervening
The Potential of Survey Experiments in Family Sociology
Close Race
Exploring the Effects of Nostalgic and Tragic Narratives on Threat Perceptions of Immigrants in the U.S
Forced Migration, Social Cohesion and Conflict
Personal Narratives Reduce Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrant Outgroups
Understanding Refugee Assistance
Aspirations for national belonging and support for collective action among marginalized groups
Altruism, Ethnic Identity, and the Limits of Shared Hardship
Racialized Empathy and Attitudes Toward Refugees in the United States
Unveiling multi-level determinants on empathy among Chinese primary and secondary school students
Can Monuments to Victims Increase Tolerance
Immigration is difficult?! Informing voters about immigration policy fosters pro-immigration views
Empathy and attitudes toward protecting migrants from criminal violence
Humanitarian Concerns and Acceptance of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Public attitudes about integration and citizenship for refugees
Changing Attitudes and Provoking Action
Forced Migration and Social Cohesion
In someone else’s shoes
Increase in the preference for civic over ethnic nationalism among Poles
Perceived Economic Contributions Increase Positivity Toward Undocumented Immigrants
Once We Too Were Strangers
Legacies of Past and Present Violence
The economic limits of empathy? Analysing variation in the attitudes of oppressed minority groups towards refugees
Immigrant Narratives Promote Inclusionary Attitudes Towards Immigration in a Middle-Income Country
Security concerns, ethnic relations, and attitudes toward refugees
Electoral effects of integrating forced migrants
Border Externalization and the Geography of Negative Views Toward Transit Migrants in Honduras
Never Again
Changing Tides
Fleeing for Their Lives
When hearts meet minds
Living in the Shadow of Deportation
Can Appeals to Religious Values Mitigate Anti-Refugee Sentiment? Experimental Evidence From Lebanon
Birds of a Feather
Estimating the Effect of Positivity About Immigrants on Vote Choice in the 2020 US Presidential Election
Can a Sense of Shared War Experience Increase Refugee Acceptance
The impact of discrimination and support on immigrant trust and belonging
Team and Nation
The Holocaust, the Socialization of Victimhood and Outgroup Political Attitudes in Israel
Repression, Interests and Outgroup Attitudes
Which Narrative Strategies Durably Reduce Prejudice? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments Supporting the Efficacy of Perspective‐Getting
Unpacking the role of in‐group bias in US public opinion on human rights violations
Immigration Attitudes and Positive Messaging
Reducing Prejudice toward Refugees
Reject, limbo, and accept
Traits that shape outgroup attitudes
My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead
Sustaining Exposure to Fact-Checks
In the Eye of the Storm
Making Sense of Sensitivity
Evidence for Altruism
Durably reducing transphobia
Female Socialization
Perspective taking can promote short-term inclusionary behavior toward Syrian refugees
A general approach to causal mediation analysis.
Citizenship and Social Class
The Significance of Immigration in the Formation of an American Identity
Perspective‐Taking as a Strategy for Improving Intergroup Relations
Immigration and Conflict in Europe
Perspective taking and prejudice reduction
Subtle priming of shared human experiences eliminates threat-induced negativity toward Arabs, immigrants, and peace-making
Ethnic Options
Family History and Attitudes toward Out-Groups
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Defining American Identity in the Twenty-First Century
The Muted Consequences of Correct Information about Immigration
The First-Daughter Effect
Culture Clash? Contesting Notions of American Identity and the Effects of Latin American Immigration
Public Attitudes Toward Immigration
Identifying Judicial Empathy
Violence, Empathy and Altruism
Perspective-taking
Seeing the World Through the Other's Eye
Group Boundaries, Immigrant Inclusion, and the Politics of Immigrant-Native Relations
Reducing Exclusionary Attitudes through Interpersonal Conversation
| Unique citing works | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |