Moral Typecasting Explains Evaluations of Undocumented Immigrants

Abstract: 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. Stu.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5617

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Moral Typecasting Explains Evaluations of Undocumented Immigrants ; volume:11 ; number:1 ; day:06 ; month:07 ; year:2023 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 11, Heft 1 (06.07.2023)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Steele, Rachel R.

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.5617
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023070805135404191874
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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