Altruistic Giving Toward Refugees: Identifying Factors That Increase Citizens' Willingness to Help
Over the past decade, the world has faced an unprecedented refugee crisis. The large number of incoming refugees represents a challenge for host societies and its citizens triggering reactions from a supportive welcome to brusque rejection and hostile behavior toward refugees. In a pre-registered st...
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| Vydané v: | Frontiers in psychology Ročník 12; s. 689184 |
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| Médium: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A
09.08.2021
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| ISSN: | 1664-1078, 1664-1078 |
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| Shrnutí: | Over the past decade, the world has faced an unprecedented refugee crisis. The large number of incoming refugees represents a challenge for host societies and its citizens triggering reactions from a supportive welcome to brusque rejection and hostile behavior toward refugees. In a pre-registered study, we investigated factors that could promote altruistic behavior in fully incentivized one-shot Dictator Game toward various receiver groups including refugees. We find that host citizens behave more altruistically toward refugees and other receiver groups if they (a) share a local identity with them (i.e., live in the same city), and (b) perceive them to be close (to the self) and warm-hearted. Moreover, citizens that are (c) generally more prosocial and hold a more left-wing political orientation are more willing to give. Unexpectedly, from a theoretical point of view, altruistic giving toward refugees was not influenced in the predicted direction by a shared student identity, competition and perceived income differences (although the latter effect was significant when considering all receiver groups). For shared student identity we even observe a reduction of altruistic behavior, while the opposite effect was predicted. We discuss implications for public policies for successful refugee helping and integration. |
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| Bibliografia: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 Edited by: Gari Walkowitz, Technical University of Munich, Germany This article was submitted to Personality and Social Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology Reviewed by: Valerio Capraro, Middlesex University, United Kingdom; Edward Millner, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 1664-1078 |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689184 |