Immigration in the Trump Era: Anger and Fear, Intersectional Stereotypes, and White American Public Opinion

• In Event: The Psychology of Immigration Attitudes

Brief Overview

We document white Americans’ intersectional (race/gender) stereotypes about Latinx Americans, and experimentally explore how fear-, anger-, and disgust-appeals prime them to shape immigration opinion, information-seeking, and inclination to action.

Authors

• Nicholas Winter, University of Virginia-Main Campus

• Rachel Smilan-Goldstein, University of Virginia-Main Campus