Deservingness versus values in public opinion on welfare: The automaticity of the deservingness heuristic

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Crowding Out Culture: Scandinavians and Americans Agree on Social Welfare in the Face of Deservingness Cues (2014, background): “, Oorschot 2000; Petersen 2012; Petersen et al. 2012). In one large analysis, for example, Petersen et al. (2012) showed the existence of a positive correlation”
Which Clients are Deserving of Help? : A Theoretical Model and Experimental Test (2018, background): “For example, Petersen et al. (2010) show that an aged man who has been on the labor market all his life is almost three times more likely to get public support to receive social welfare, when compared to a young man without a lot of work experience.”
To What Extent Did the Financial Crisis Intensify the Pressure to Reform the Welfare State (2011, background): “‘deservingness heuristic’ among the public, support for such programmes and policies is automatic and even overrules prevailing values (Petersen et al. 2010).”
The Deservingness Heuristic and the Politics of Health Care (2017, background): “Implicit, intuitive factors often come to dominate judgments and behaviors at the expense of explicit, more effortful considerations related to, for example, ideological consistency and self-interest (see Haidt 2001; for political applications, see Lodge and Taber 2013; Petersen et al. 2011).”