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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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Abstract

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
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hellmann, Dshamilja Marie UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fiedler, Susann UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Gloeckner, Andreas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
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
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language SOCIAL VALUE ORIENTATION; INTERGROUP COMPETITION; STEREOTYPE CONTENT; PUBLIC-ATTITUDES; DICTATOR GAMES; GROUP CONFLICT; BEHAVIOR; IDENTITY; SELF; IMMIGRATION Multiple languages Psychology, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/58007