Anxiety, Immigration, and the Search for Information
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In this article, we use the issue of immigration to explore the role of anxiety in responses to political appeals. According to previous literature, anxiety motivates citizens to learn and pay more attention to news coverage. Literature in psychology demonstrates that anxiety is associated with a tendency to pay closer attention to threatening information. We predict that anxious citizens will seek more information but that they will seek out and be attracted to threatening information. In an experiment, we induce anxiety about immigration and then subjects have the opportunity to search for additional information in a website designed to mimic online news sources. The website has both immigration and nonimmigration stories, and the immigration stories are split between threatening coverage and nonthreatening coverage. We find that anxious subjects exhibit biased information processing; they read, remember, and agree with threatening information.
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Emotions such as anxiety, anger, fear, and contempt mediate the relation between some threats and prejudice toward immigrants.
“There is also evidence that emotions such as anxiety, anger, fear, and contempt mediate the relation between some of the threats mentioned above and prejudice toward immigrants (Brader et al. 2008, Gadarian & Albertson 2014, Landmann et al. 2019).”
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- Authors
- Gadarian, S. K., & Albertson, B.
- Affiliations
- Syracuse University (US)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Venue
- Political Psychology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-06-12
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 133-164
- ISSN
- 0162-895X (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9221
- OpenAlex
- W1751775926
- Cited by
- 231
- References
- 77
- Citations by year
- 2026: 26 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 24 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 14 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 28.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Political Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media Studies and Communication
- Social Sciences › Communication › Communication and COVID-19 Impact
- Keywords
- anxiety, immigration, information seeking, threatening information, political appeal, biased information processing, media coverage, online news sources
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