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Does a common-victim identity make East-Germans more positive about refugees?
Paschke, L. (2017) Does a common-victim identity make East-Germans more positive about refugees?
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| Abstract: | Germany had a large influx of refugees since 2015 which urged the government and also German inhabitants to react to support the integration of incoming refugees. Although a lot of people endorse the attempt to help refugees, there are also people who disapprove this approach of the refugee crisis. Especially between East- and West-Germany differences can be found. The election results and previous research let suggest that East-Germany is more critical towards refugees than people from West-Germany. In an experiment we assessed if the integrated threat theory can be used to explain the upcoming hostilities towards refugees in East-Germany. Analysis showed that symbolic and realistic threat were influencing in predicting negative attitude towards refugees. Moreover we examined the question if it is possible to influence this opinion by creating a common-victim identity between East- Germans and refugees. Participant in the common-victim condition did not report more or less negative attitude towards refugees than participants in the control condition. Also the extent of identification with East-Germany had no interacting effect on this. Limiting factors and possible explanations for the missing effects are discussed. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/72519 |
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