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

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Title Replication Data for: "The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration"
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/C56WMI
 
Creator Aarøe, Lene
Petersen, Michael Bang
Arceneaux, Kevin
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
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 U.S. 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 social majority and minorities is so hard to achieve.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Behavioral immune system
Pathogen avoidance
Immigration attitudes
Disgust sensitivity,
Evolutionary psychology
Survey
 
Contributor Aarøe, Lene