Mao Zhe-Fei, Li Qi-Wei, Wang Yi-Ming, Zhou Jie
Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Int J Intercult Relat. 2023 Sep;96:101843. doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101843. Epub 2023 Jun 13.
We present a framework for studying the spillover effect of negative foreign COVID-19 news on attitudes towards immigration. Our framework proposes that exposure to negative COVID-19 news from foreign countries can activate negative associations with foreigners, reduce positive attitudes towards them, and increase perceived threat, ultimately leading to decreased support for immigration. We conducted three studies to test this framework. Study 1 found that exposure to negative COVID-19 news about a foreign country increased negative valence associations with that country. Study 2 showed that exposure to more negative COVID-19 news about foreign countries was associated with lower acceptance of immigration policies in real life. Study 3 replicated the spillover effect of negative news exposure using a scenario manipulation. The effects of negative news exposure on immigration policy acceptance in both Studies 2 and 3 were mediated by changes in foreigner attitudes and intergroup threat. Our results demonstrate the important spillover effect of negative foreign COVID-19 news exposure on immigration attitudes and highlight the association perspective as a foundation for understanding attitude changes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
我们提出了一个框架，用于研究国外新冠疫情负面新闻对移民态度的溢出效应。我们的框架提出，接触来自国外的新冠疫情负面新闻会激活与外国人的负面联想，减少对他们的积极态度，并增加感知到的威胁，最终导致对移民的支持减少。我们进行了三项研究来检验这个框架。研究1发现，接触关于某个外国的新冠疫情负面新闻会增加与该国的负性联想。研究2表明，接触更多关于外国的新冠疫情负面新闻与现实生活中对移民政策的较低接受度相关。研究3使用情景操纵复制了负面新闻曝光的溢出效应。研究2和研究3中负面新闻曝光对移民政策接受度的影响均由外国人态度和群体间威胁的变化介导。我们的结果证明了国外新冠疫情负面新闻曝光对移民态度的重要溢出效应，并强调了联想视角作为理解新冠疫情大流行期间态度变化的基础。
