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The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration

The American political science review, 2017-05, Vol.111 (2), p.277-294 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 ;American Political Science Association 2017 ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0003-0554 ;EISSN: 1537-5943 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0003055416000770 ;CODEN: APORBP

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Title:
The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration
Author: AARØE, LENE ; PETERSEN, MICHAEL BANG ; ARCENEAUX, KEVIN
Subjects: Anxieties ; Attitudes ; Decision making ; Evolution ; Humanities and Social Sciences ; Immigration ; Immigration policy ; Immune system ; Interaction ; Laboratories ; Minority groups ; Noncitizens ; Pathogens ; Political attitudes ; Political behavior ; Political opposition ; Political science ; Political systems ; Politics
Is Part Of: The American political science review, 2017-05, Vol.111 (2), p.277-294
Description: We present, test, and extend a theoretical framework that connects disgust, a powerful basic human emotion, to political attitudes through psychological mechanisms designed to protect humans from disease. These mechanisms work outside of conscious awareness, and in modern environments, they can motivate individuals to avoid intergroup contact by opposing immigration. We report a meta-analysis of previous tests in the psychological sciences and conduct, for the first time, a series of tests in nationally representative samples collected in the United States and Denmark that integrate the role of disgust and the behavioral immune system into established models of emotional processing and political attitude formation. In doing so, we offer an explanation for why peaceful integration and interaction between ethnic majority and minorities is so hard to achieve.
Publisher: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0003-0554
EISSN: 1537-5943
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055416000770
CODEN: APORBP
Source: ProQuest Central

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The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration

Copyright © American Political Science Association 2017 ;American Political Science Association 2017 ;Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ;ISSN: 0003-0554 ;EISSN: 1537-5943 ;DOI: 10.1017/S0003055416000770 ;CODEN: APORBP

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