The effects of feeling threatened on attitudes toward immigrants.

By Walter G. Stephan, C. Renfro, Victoria M. Esses, C. Stephan, Tim Martin. 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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An experimental approach to Intergroup Threat Theory: Manipulations, moderators, and consequences of realistic vs. symbolic threat (2018, background): “…of the first demonstrations of the causal relationship between intergroup threat and prejudice, American participants who read an article suggesting that Rwandan immigrants posed both realistic and symbolic threats expressed more negative attitudes towards those immigrants (Stephan et al., 2005).”
Who Can Enter? A Multilevel Analysis on Public Support for Immigration Criteria across 20 European Countries (2009, background): “In an experimental study, Stephan, Renfro, Esses, Stephan, and Martin (2005) demonstrated that attitudes towards an immigrant group were the most negative when the group posed both realistic and symbolic threats to the ingroup.”
The relationship between outgroup size and anti-outgroup attitudes: A theoretical synthesis and empirical test of group threat- and intergroup contact theory (2010, result): “This conclusion is backed up by results from experimental analyses (Esses et al., 2001; Riek et al., 2006; Stephan et al., 2005; Ullrich et al., 2006), cross-national comparative investigations (Coenders, 2001; Scheepers et al., 2002a; Semyonov et al., 2004) as well as multiwave panel analyses…”
Authoritarianism, Threat, and Prejudice: An Analysis of Mediation and Moderation (2009, methodology): “To assess prejudice, we asked participants how strongly they felt 18 emotions toward Turks, following previous research (eg, Stephan etal, 2005 ) (1 = don't feel at all , 10 = feel very strongly ).”
Xenophobia (2009, background): “Stephan and Stephan (2000) suggest that individuals in the in-group experience feelings of threat when interacting with members of the out-group in ways that challenge their self-image (e.”
Testing a New Theoretical Model for Attitudes Toward Immigrants (2016, background): “This clearly extends previous literature on attitudes toward immigrants that has tended to focus on negative aspects of appraisal, in particular threat and competition (Croucher et al., 2013; Dustmann & Preston, 2007; Fitzgerald, Curtis, & Corliss, 2012; Stephan et al., 2000; Stephan et al., 2005; S”
Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students’ perspectives on ‘internationalisation at home’ (2009, background): “Stephan et al (2005) found that the thought of interacting with international students could arouse anxiety among home students, especially if they had been primed with negative stereotypes, while Fritz, Chin & DeMarinis (2008) found that international students reported greater anxiety about…”