Moral typecasting explains evaluations of undocumented immigrants

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
R. Steele
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Policies toward undocumented immigrants have fueled political debates recently. Since policies are multidimensional, I proposed examining support for two types of policies: punishing or helping. The Theory of Dyadic Morality (Schein & Gray, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868317698288), above other theoretical approaches, was the most fitting to analyze these divergent perspectives. Based on the typecast model, I hypothesized that agent typecast beliefs would predict punishing and patient (victim) beliefs would predict helping. Thus, I expected the agent effect to be mediated through disgust and anger and the victim effect to be mediated through empathy-related emotions. In Study 1 participants provided open-ended responses regarding their beliefs about undocumented immigrants, which were coded for agent and victim themes. Viewing undocumented immigrants as agents of harm was associated with support for punishing policies, and this link was mediated by elevated disgust/anger. Study 2 replicated these Study 1 findings and, in addition, found that perceiving undocumented immigrants as victims was associated with support for helping policies. This link was mediated by increased empathy-related emotions. Implications for ongoing policy debates were discussed.
道德模式化解释了对非法移民的评价
针对非法移民的政策最近引发了政治辩论。由于政策是多层面的,我建议研究对两类政策的支持:惩罚或帮助。Dyadic道德理论(Schein&Gray,2018,https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868317698288)在其他理论方法之上,是最适合分析这些不同观点的方法。基于类型投射模型,我假设代理人的类型投射信念会预测惩罚,而患者(受害者)的信念会预测帮助。因此,我期望代理人效应通过厌恶和愤怒来中介,受害者效应通过移情相关情绪来中介。在研究1中,参与者提供了关于他们对无证移民的信仰的开放式回答,这些回答被编码为代理人和受害者主题。将无证移民视为伤害的代理人与支持惩罚政策有关,而这种联系是由厌恶/愤怒情绪的上升所介导的。研究2复制了研究1的发现,此外,发现将无证移民视为受害者与支持帮助政策有关。这种联系是由移情相关情绪的增加所介导的。讨论了对正在进行的政策辩论的影响。
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Journal of Social and Political Psychology
Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science
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2.70
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43
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40 weeks
期刊介绍: The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal (without author fees), published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (e.g., peace psychology, community psychology, cultural psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, economic psychology) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives. JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes high-quality work from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation, questioning of assumptions, and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education, policymaking, professional practice, and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and meta-theoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology, and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, quantitative methodology, and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions (e.g., qualitative and mixed-methods research, participatory action research, critical psychology, social representations, narrative, and discursive approaches). Because it is published online, JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.
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