Reducing Negative Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Russia and Taiwan: Possible Beneficial Effects of Naïve Dialecticism and an Incremental Worldview

Frontiers in Psychology

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I-Ching Lee¹  Tatyana Permyakova²  Marina Sheveleva² 

[1] Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University;Department of Foreign Languages, National Research University Higher School of Economics

关键词: intergroup relations;    social dominance orientation;    right-wing authoritarianism;    cross-cultural comparison;    model testing;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572386

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Greater mobility in human societies has resulted in more interactions and contact with immigrants. In the current research, we investigated how viewing the world as flexible, changing, and paradoxical (i.e., naïve dialecticism and an incremental theory) may predict one’s authoritarian beliefs and in turn predict one’s attitudes toward immigrants. To test the generalizability of our findings, we recruit comparable samples (i.e., college students) from two societies that are largely different (Russia and Taiwan). Great cultural similarities were observed. Naïve dialecticism and an incremental theory appeared as two distinctive constructs. People who were higher on naïve dialecticism and an incremental over entity theory had lower support for authoritarian beliefs (i.e., right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation) and, in turn, had more favorable attitudes toward immigrants. Some cultural differences were also observed. Taiwanese participants’ negative attitudes toward immigrants were entirely ideology-based, whereas Russian participants’ negative attitudes toward immigrants were partly based on presumably personal experiences. Pan-cultural and culturally specific mechanisms in predicting attitudes toward immigrants were further discussed and explored.

【 授权许可】

CC BY