Do Attitudes About Immigration Predict Willingness to Admit Individual Immigrants? A Cross-National Test of the Person-Positivity Bias

This paper demonstrates that citizens in seven advanced industrialized democracies generally oppose more open immigration policies, but stand ready to admit individual immigrants. Using an experimental design, we demonstrate the applicability of the “person-positivity bias” to immigration and investigate the effects of economic and cultural “deservingness” on evaluations of individual immigrants

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Iyengar, Shanto
Other Persons:	Jackman, Simon (contributor) ; Messing, Solomon (contributor) ; Valentino, Nicholas A. (contributor) ; Aalberg, Toril (contributor) ; Duch, Raymond M. (contributor) ; Hahn, Kyu S. (contributor) ; Soroka, Stuart N. (contributor) ; Harell, Allison (contributor) ; Kobayashi, Tetsuro (contributor)
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Einwanderung \| Immigration \| Migranten \| Migrants \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Meinung \| Opinion \| Migrationspolitik \| Immigration policy \| Systematischer Fehler \| Bias \| Prognoseverfahren \| Forecasting model

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (25 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	In: Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 77(3), p. 641-665, Fall 2013 Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments September 14, 2003 erstellt
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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