Redistributive Preferences and the Contact Hypothesis: Assessing how Emotions towards Economic Inequality are Affected by Loose and Socio-Economically Diverse Contacts and Impinge on Public Policy Preferences
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| author | Zmerli, Sonja Bastias, Franco |
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| contents | <p><span>In this study, we aim to test the implications of the renowned 'contact hypothesis', developed by Gordon Allport in the 1950s, in the realm of economic inequality research. More specifically, we focus on whether the frequency of being 'exposed', when out and about, to people of socio-economically different backgrounds, i.e. either poorer or richer, than oneself is significantly associated with attitudes and emotions towards economic inequality. Preliminary linear regression analyses, based on representative online survey data from Great Britain and France, suggest, that loose contacts with people poorer than oneself in both countries strongly affect inequality-related emotions as different as compassion, frustration, anger, indifference, moral outrage or sadness. Being 'exposed' to richer people than oneself, by contrast, seems to impede more intensive emotional responses to a set of different stimuli of economic inequality. Similarly, we find that more frequent contacts are directly associated with redistributive preferences. In the next analytical step we aim to investigate the underlying causal mechanisms that seem to connect these contacts with inequality perceptions, emotions and redistributive preferences.</span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | Redistributive Preferences and the Contact Hypothesis: Assessing how Emotions towards Economic Inequality are Affected by Loose and Socio-Economically Diverse Contacts and Impinge on Public Policy Preferences Zmerli, Sonja Bastias, Franco Contact hypothesis Inequality Perceptions Redistribution Emotions <p><span>In this study, we aim to test the implications of the renowned 'contact hypothesis', developed by Gordon Allport in the 1950s, in the realm of economic inequality research. More specifically, we focus on whether the frequency of being 'exposed', when out and about, to people of socio-economically different backgrounds, i.e. either poorer or richer, than oneself is significantly associated with attitudes and emotions towards economic inequality. Preliminary linear regression analyses, based on representative online survey data from Great Britain and France, suggest, that loose contacts with people poorer than oneself in both countries strongly affect inequality-related emotions as different as compassion, frustration, anger, indifference, moral outrage or sadness. Being 'exposed' to richer people than oneself, by contrast, seems to impede more intensive emotional responses to a set of different stimuli of economic inequality. Similarly, we find that more frequent contacts are directly associated with redistributive preferences. In the next analytical step we aim to investigate the underlying causal mechanisms that seem to connect these contacts with inequality perceptions, emotions and redistributive preferences.</span></p> |
| title | Redistributive Preferences and the Contact Hypothesis: Assessing how Emotions towards Economic Inequality are Affected by Loose and Socio-Economically Diverse Contacts and Impinge on Public Policy Preferences |
| topic | Contact hypothesis Inequality Perceptions Redistribution Emotions |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17600349 |