Understanding Trade Preferences and the Role of Inter-Group and Economic Anxieties

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Psychological Approaches to the Study of Foreign Policy

Brief Overview

Do economic anxiety and inter-group anxiety affect support for free trade? We field a survey experiment on 3,300 US adults and employ a factorial design to test the independent effect of each type of anxiety, and the interaction effects.

Authors

• Shikhar Singh, Yale University

• James Sundquist, Yale University