Disgust sensitivity and support for immigration across five nations

S Clifford, C Erisen, D Wendell… - Politics and the Life …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Politics and the Life Sciences, 2023cambridge.org
Immigration has become a focal debate in politics across the world. Recent research
suggests that anti-immigration attitudes may have deep psychological roots in implicit
disease avoidance motivations. A key implication of this theory is that individual differences
in disease avoidance should be related to opposition to immigration across a wide variety of
cultural and political contexts. However, existing evidence on the topic has come almost
entirely from the United States and Canada. In this article, we test the disease avoidance …
Immigration has become a focal debate in politics across the world. Recent research suggests that anti-immigration attitudes may have deep psychological roots in implicit disease avoidance motivations. A key implication of this theory is that individual differences in disease avoidance should be related to opposition to immigration across a wide variety of cultural and political contexts. However, existing evidence on the topic has come almost entirely from the United States and Canada. In this article, we test the disease avoidance hypothesis using nationally representative samples from Norway, Sweden, Turkey, and Mexico, as well as two diverse samples from the United States. We find consistent and robust evidence that disgust sensitivity is associated with anti-immigration attitudes and that the relationship is similar in magnitude to education. Overall, our findings support the disease avoidance hypothesis and provide new insights into the nature of anti-immigration attitudes.
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