@article{ref1,
title="Intergroup relations during the refugee crisis: individual and cultural stereotypes and prejudices and their relationship with behavior toward asylum seekers",
journal="Frontiers in psychology",
year="2020",
author="Bye, Hege H.",
volume="11",
number="",
pages="e612267-e612267",
abstract="In this paper, I investigate intergroup relations between natives and asylum seekers during the European refugee crisis, and contribute to the reemerging methodological  debate on the measurement of stereotypes and prejudices as individual and collective  constructs. Drawing on data from the Norwegian Citizen Panel (NCP; N = 1,062), I  examined how Norwegians stereotyped asylum seekers at the height of the refugee  crisis and the emotional prejudices asylum seekers as a group elicited. By  experimentally manipulating the survey question format, I examined whether and how  stereotypes and emotional prejudices toward asylum-seekers differed depending on  their measurement as individual or collective constructs. A subset of respondents (n  = 228) had reception centers for asylum-seekers established in their local community  during the crisis. These participants reported their behaviors toward the asylum  seekers in their neighborhood. In this subsample, I investigated how individual  facilitating and harming intergroup behavior was related to individual and  collective conceptualizations of stereotypes and prejudices. The results showed that  both low warmth and low competence stereotypes, as well as negative emotions toward  asylum seekers, were rated as stronger when measured as collective as compared to  individual-level constructs. In the individual condition, respondents reported  feeling more admiration and sympathy than respondents in the collective condition  attributed to others. Individual stereotypes and prejudices correlated  systematically with individual facilitating and harming intergroup behaviors. The  perception that others hold more negative stereotypes of asylum seekers, and the  perceived anger and fear of others, did correlated with individual harming  behaviors. Perceptions of others' anxiety correlated negatively with facilitating  behaviors. Implications and future directions for the conceptualization and  measurement of stereotypes and emotional prejudices are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1664-1078",
doi="10.3389/fpsyg.2020.612267",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.612267"
}