The Power of Perception: The Impact of Individual Perceptions of Local Immigrant Population Levels on Immigration Policy Views

• In Event: The Psychology of Immigration Attitudes

Brief Overview

Using a survey experiment with novel subjective measures, we argue that examining the effects of objective measures of local immigrant populations offers a distorted view of how local context shapes public opinion on immigration.

Authors

• Stephanie Chan, Princeton University

• Tanika Raychaudhuri, University of Pennsylvania

• Ali Valenzuela, Princeton University