TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - The drowning-refugee effect: media salience and xenophobic attitudes
JO  - Applied economics letters
A1  - Poli, Silvia De
A1  - Jakobsson, Niklas
A1  - Schüller, Simone
SP  - 1167
EP  - 1172
VL  - 24
IS  - 16
N2  - We study whether salient media coverage of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean affects individual xenophobic attitudes. We combine a randomized survey experiment - a variant of the classic 'trolley dilemma' - that implicitly elicits individual attitudes towards foreigners, with variation in interview timing, and find that such issue salience significantly decreases xenophobic attitudes by 2.2 percentage points. Our results thus support the idea that exposure to news describing immigrants as victims (instead of a threat) can significantly affect public opinion and mitigate bias against immigrants.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1350-4851
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2016.1262513
ID  - ref1
ER  -