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Bolette Danckert,1 Trine Allerslev Horsbøl,2 Ole Andersen,1 Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton,2,3 Jane Christensen,4 Margit Rasted,5 Astrid Petersen,6 Mette Nørgaard,7 Nessn Azawi,8 Lars Lund,9 Frede Donskov10 1Director´s Office, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2Survivorship and Inequality in Cancer, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3Department of Clinical Oncology & Palliative Care, Zealand University Hospital, Næstved, Denmark; 4Statistics and Data Analysis, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark; 5Danish Health Data Authority, Copenhagen, Denmark; 6Department of Pathology, Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark; 7Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; 8Department of Urology, Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark; 9Department of Urology and Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; 10Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, DenmarkCorrespondence: Frede DonskovDepartment of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 99, Aarhus N 8200, DenmarkTel +45 4046 5234Email frede.donskov@auh.rm.dkBackground: The Danish multidisciplinary renal cancer group (DaRenCa) established the nationwide database DaRenCaData in 2010. The Danish Cancer Registry (DCR) has been considered the golden standard. In contrast to DCR, DaRenCaData required the diagnosis to be histologically or cytologically verified. DaRenCaData and DCR have not previously been compared.Patients and Methods: We included patients with renal cell carcinoma registered in DaRenCaData and/or DCR from August 1st 2010 to December 31st 2015. We computed completeness and positive predictive value (PPV) of a diagnosis in DaRenCaData compared with DCR, 1-year, 3-year and 5-year mortality rate ratios, and relative survival.Results: We identified 4890 patients in the two reg

This article examines whether the effect of interethnic encounters on natives’ attitudes towards immigration varies with the Big Five personality trait openness to experience. We hypothesize that individuals who score high on openness, and who therefore are more appreciative of and responsive to new experiences, react more positively/less negatively to interethnic encounters. We test this conjecture on two surveys collected in Denmark and Canada. In line with our expectations, the analyses suggest that openness positively moderates the effect of interethnic encounters on immigration attitudes: compared to those with lower levels of openness, more open individuals express more pro-immigration attitudes when experiencing both personal interethnic contact and self-reported exposure to ethnic diversity in the neighbourhood.

Drawing on insights from political psychology regarding political information processing, this paper argues that politically sophisticated individuals are less sensitive to the social cues manifested in the ethnic composition of their neighborhood when they form political opinions. This prediction is founded on politically sophisticated individuals having a greater comprehension of news and other mass-mediated sources, which makes them less likely to rely on neighborhood cues as sources of information relevant for political attitudes. Based on a unique panel data set with fine-grained information about the ethnic composition of the immediate neighborhood, the paper finds consistent support for the hypothesis: While neighborhood exposure to non-Western immigrants reduces anti-immigration attitudes among individuals with low political sophistication, there is no effect among individuals with high political sophistication. These results thus partially support contact theory and demonstrate that integrating the information processing and ethnic diversity literatures enhances our understanding of outgroup exposure effects.