Hate Welfare But Help the Poor: How the Attributional Content of Stereotypes Explains the Paradox of Reactions to the Destitute in America1

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Modeling heterogeneous treatment effects in large-scale experiments using Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (2010, methodology): “The original BayesTree package is available from CRAN; our modified version can be found on our websites.”
Discrimination Across the Ideological Divide (2013, background): “Similarly, conservatives oppose public health care because they perceive beneficiaries of these programs (i.e., the poor) as violating the values of hard work and self-reliance (Wetherell et al., 2013; see also Henry et al., 2004).”
I'm Moral, but I Won't Help You: The Distinct Roles of Empathy and Justice in Donations (2014, background): “Research has demonstrated that people are less willing to provide support or aid to those in need when recipients are judged as personally responsible for their problems (Barnes, Ickes, and Kidd 1979; Farwell and Weiner 2000; Henry, Reyna, and Weiner 2004; Skitka and Tetlock 1992; Weiner 1993).”