1. Native Attributions of Immigrant Behavioral Accounts in Virtual Reality
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Yildirim, Funda, Akdoğdu, Deniz Beste, and Erisen, Elif
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FOS: Psychology ,Engineering ,Political Science ,FOS: Political science ,Computational Engineering ,Psychology ,Social and Behavioral Sciences - Abstract
How do people make dispositional attributions for immigrants and natives? We tackle this question with virtual reality setup, where a native participant observes a Syrian and a native actor. We manipulate the heritage of the actor providing the verbal treatment, and control for the impact of perceptual salience by changing the actors' position in the VR setting in a factorial design experiment. Our primary objective is to determine if, in a negative scenario, individuals are more likely to make trait attribution rather than situational attribution to the immigrant compared to the native. We investigate the connection between physiology (heart rate) and attitudes towards the actors, the specific traits attributed to the actors, and the perceived causal attribution of the actions. We aim to harness the strength of VR in providing immersive experiences to contribute to the experimental literature on immigration and intergroup relations.
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- 2023
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