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Proximity causes egocentric safety concerns + The effect of proximity on safety concerns due to immigrant crime

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Proximity causes egocentric safety concerns + The effect of proximity on safety concerns due to immigrant crime

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Safety and egocentric
Hypothesis: People feel more unsafe meeting a non-co-ethnic person on the street than a co-ethnic person.

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Cultural sociotopic threat; we are trying to figure out whether it makes a difference if the refugees(women and children) are Ukrainians or Syrians, and what cultural threat they may pose to the community.

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H1: the more natives are exposed to assimilation by immigrants, the more likely they are to be in favour of immigration

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mechanism: cultural egocentric
hypothesis: If there is a lenguage barrier individual attitudes towards immigration would be more negative.

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Hypothesis: We expect that the respondents will report that they feel more safe if the man is from their own country than if the man is an immigrant.

Mechanism:

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Survey, randomising versions A-D:
"Imagine you are alone on the streets at dark and a  ___ person is approaching you. How safe would you feel on a scale from 1-10 (10= very safe)?"
A: white woman B: white man C: non-white woman D: non-white man

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How proximity of immigrant-led crime affects whether attitudes on safety are egocentric or sociotropic.
Two groups of people are faced with the following prompt:
Abdul A. committed an act of deviance ____
Group A: In your neighbourhood
Group B: Within your city
The survey question-
1. On a scale from 1-10, How threatened do you personally feel by this act of crime.
2. On a scale of 1-10, How worried are you for your community by this news

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Cultural-sociotropic:

2 groups: 30% immigrants from Afghanistan that lived in Germany for ten years

prompt 1: majority of immigrants took language classes, participate regularly in community activities, socially interact with their neighbours
prompt 2: majority of immigrants don't speak native language, keep to themselves, don't "mix" with their neighbours

survey question:
Do you think that Germany should be more open to immigration?

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Imagine you're walking alone on the street and a ____ (German man or immigrant man) stops next to you with his car and asks you the directions. How safe would you feel if this man is approaching you?

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Sample:
1000 people from germany
online study
People from different areas of germany (south, north, etc. & urban, rural, suburban)
controlling for age, sex, socioeconomic background, education

Survey:
1. Ask question evaluating attitude towards immigrant and immigration laws.
+ asking specific attitudes about immigrant of different ethnic backgrounds

2. give the treatment: setting text

“Imagine you live in a small town of around 1000 people. Last year, because of reduced tourism due to the COVID pandemic, your town’s hotel was forced to close. Recently, you learn that the empty hotel building will be converted into refugee accommodation for 30 asylum seekers from _____. You have further been informed that the refugees will all be women and children who are fleeing violence in their home countries. These refugees have already been in Germany for several months, and have learned basic German skills through prior participation in organized integration courses.”

For group A fill gap with "Ukraine". For group B fill gap with "Syria".

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Imagine you go to a bakery and ask for something to eat and the employee doesn´t understand well what you are asking for and doesn´t get your order right. How would you feel on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 being completly comfortable and 10 being completly uncomfortable)

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Imagine you go to a bakery and ask for something to eat and the employee doesn´t understand well what you are asking for and doesn´t get your order right. How would you feel on a scale from 0 to 10 (0 being completly comfortable and 10 being completly uncomfortable)