Myrdal (1944) described the "American dilemma" as the conflict between abstract national values ("liberty and justice for all") and more concrete, everyday prejudices. We leveraged construal-level theory to empirically test Myrdal's proposition that construal level (abstract vs. concrete) can influence prejudice. We measured individual differences in construal level (Study 1) and manipulated co...

This study advances a comprehensive analysis of the antecedents of xenophobia towards Palestinian citizens of Israel among Israeli immigrants from the former Soviet Union in comparison to nonimmigrant Jewish Israelis. We conducted a large-scale study of xenophobia in the face of terrorism in Israel by means of telephone surveys in September 2003 and analyzed a sample of 641 nonimmigrant Jewish ...

The article analyzes initiatives aimed at creating a field of reflection and political intervention called the 'health of the black population,' which occurred between 1996 and 2004, that is, under the administration of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and part of Luis Inácio Lula da Silva's administration. During this period, the process of discussing and enacting affirmative action policies in Brazi...

We report here a summary of our recent research on the effect that the race issue, in the United States, and the immigration issue in European countries, is having on the degree of redistribution and the size of the public sector that is implemented through political competition. We model political competition as taking place on a two dimensional policy space, where the first issue is the tax r...

Xenophobia against Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities has spanned decades of history, recently escalating in the context COVID-19 pandemic. According to Policy Planning Council, there were 2583 reports anti-Asian hate incidents as August 2020, with only rising [1]. The federal government done little ameliorate this racial discrimination. Although H. Res 908, condemning all f...

In three samples containing Buddhist and Christian participants from several nations, participants of both religions manifested a generally similar relationship between religiosity and intolerance. In all three samples, devotional religiosity (e.g. prayer frequency, faith devotion), was strongly correlated with coalitional religiosity (e.g. organized religious attendance, fundamentalism). Yet d...

How do counterterrorism policies in the United States reproduce anti-Black racism? Research on U.S. domestic post-9/11 has largely focused experiences of Muslim Americans while marginalising both overlapping and separate effects policy non-Muslim people colour, particularly Black communities. I argue that policy, as an act determining what kinds political contention state finds non-threatening,...

Sometimes the leaders of ethnic minority groups behave in a way that may promote xenophobia. A simple two-subject model is used to find out when this behaviour is rational. The conditions are briefly discussed with reference to the Italian case. An appendix illustrates the definition of xenophobia adopted in the paper. JEL Classification number: D70

Xenophobia and anti-immigrant attacks rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet this may not be solely due to disease threat. According theories of frustration scapegoating, situational obstructions deprivation can motivate prejudice against outgroups. Using a global natural quasi-experimental design, study tests whether restrictiveness national lockdowns explain higher individual-level perception...