Intuitions and Group Attitudes

• In Event: Group Conflict and Attitudes Toward Immigration

Abstract

We present a new account of these psychological factors which drive group affect. Intuitions are are used by those who feel anxiety about politics. After proposing novel measures of these anxieties and their resultant anxieties, we measure both factors influence on group prejudice and feelings of ethnocentrism. Even controlling for established factors like education and ideology, intuitions and anxiety prove vital correlates of group affect. New experimental data are presented consistent with this claim.

Authors

• Thomas Wood, The Ohio State University

• J. Eric Oliver, University of Chicago