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Correcting Citizens’ Misperceptions about non-Western Immigrants: Corrective Information, Interpretations, and Policy Opinions

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  • Jørgensen, Frederik Juhl
  • Osmundsen, Mathias

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Can corrective information change citizens’ misperceptions about immigrants and subsequently lead to favorable immigration opinions? While prior studies from the USA document how corrections about the size of minority populations fail to change citizens’ immigration-related opinions, they do not examine how other facts that speak to immigrants’ cultural or economic dependency rates can influence immigration policy opinions. To extend earlier work, we conducted a large-scale survey experiment fielded to a nationally representative sample of Danes. We randomly expose participants to information about non-Western immigrants’ (1) welfare dependency rate, (2) crime rate, and (3) proportion of the total population. We find that participants update their factual beliefs in light of correct information, but reinterpret the information in a highly selective fashion, ultimately failing to change their policy preferences.

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  • Jørgensen, Frederik Juhl & Osmundsen, Mathias, 2022. "Correcting Citizens’ Misperceptions about non-Western Immigrants: Corrective Information, Interpretations, and Policy Opinions," Journal of Experimental Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 9(1), pages 64-73, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jexpos:v:9:y:2022:i:1:p:64-73_5
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    1. Riccardo Bruni & Alessandro Gioffré & Maria Marino, 2022. ""In-group bias in preferences for redistribution: a survey experiment in Italy"," IREA Working Papers 202223, University of Barcelona, Research Institute of Applied Economics, revised Nov 2023.
    2. Ronald Kwon & Phoebe Ho & Mehr Mumtaz, 2024. "Perceptions of the Size of the Foreign-Born Population: Do Changes in Multicultural Policies Shape Beliefs?," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 43(4), pages 1-19, August.

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