What types of asylum seekers are Europeans willing to accept? We conducted a conjoint
experiment asking 18,000 eligible voters in 15 European countries to evaluate 180,000 …

Based on an innovative design, combining a multi-factorial survey experiment with a
longitudinal perspective, we examine changes in the public acceptance of immigrants in …

Ethnic and racial intergroup attitudes are assumed to develop due to the influence of
socialization contexts. However, there is still little longitudinal evidence supporting this …

With international migration at a record high, a burgeoning literature has explored the
drivers of public attitudes toward migrants. However, most studies to date have focused on …

In the past three decades, scholars have frequently used the concept of framing effects to
assess the competence of citizens' political judgments and how susceptible they are to elite …

Immigration leads to strong and polarized public and political debates in Europe and the
Western world more generally. In some of these debates, migrants are described as either …

In 2015, the number of people seeking asylum in Europe skyrocketed. However, asylum
applications were mainly concentrated in a few destination countries such as Germany …

Bringing together psychological approaches to empathy with research on public preferences
for foreign development aid, we shed light on the role empathy plays in global helping …

What preferences do people have for cross‐country cooperation on irregular migration and
refugee protection? Existing research improves our understanding of how voters react to …

Immigration is one of the most salient and important issues in contemporary American
politics. While a great deal is known about how cultural attitudes and economics influence …