Hellmann, Dshamilja Marie, Fiedler, Susann and Gloeckner, Andreas (2021). Altruistic Giving Toward Refugees: Identifying Factors That Increase Citizens' Willingness to Help. Front. Psychol., 12. LAUSANNE: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA. ISSN 1664-1078
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Over the past decade, the world has faced an unprecedented refugee crisis. The large number of incoming refugees represents a challenge for host societies and its citizens triggering reactions from a supportive welcome to brusque rejection and hostile behavior toward refugees. In a pre-registered study, we investigated factors that could promote altruistic behavior in fully incentivized one-shot Dictator Game toward various receiver groups including refugees. We find that host citizens behave more altruistically toward refugees and other receiver groups if they (a) share a local identity with them (i.e., live in the same city), and (b) perceive them to be close (to the self) and warm-hearted. Moreover, citizens that are (c) generally more prosocial and hold a more left-wing political orientation are more willing to give. Unexpectedly, from a theoretical point of view, altruistic giving toward refugees was not influenced in the predicted direction by a shared student identity, competition and perceived income differences (although the latter effect was significant when considering all receiver groups). For shared student identity we even observe a reduction of altruistic behavior, while the opposite effect was predicted. We discuss implications for public policies for successful refugee helping and integration.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-580076 | ||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689184 | ||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Front. Psychol. | ||||||||||||||||
Volume: | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
Date: | 2021 | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | FRONTIERS MEDIA SA | ||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | LAUSANNE | ||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 1664-1078 | ||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||||||
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URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/58007 |
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