How one gesture curbed ethnic discrimination

Auer, Daniel; Ruedin, Didier

doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12547

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“…Overall, this approach contributes both to developing the research field on ethnic discrimination-by proposing an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to examining everyday discrimination-and to providing first rigorous empirical experimental survey results that offer information to policymakers and other relevant stakeholders on what factors need to be changed in order to reduce discrimination (Laouénan and Rathelot, 2022), during everyday encounters in neighborhoods. This approach is supported by previous research showing that discriminating behavior can be reduced by changing particular relevant parameters of the situation (Auer and Ruedin, 2022). With its survey experimental approach, this article provides a foundation for future research on discriminating behavior in common everyday situations.…”

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Ethnic discrimination in neighborhood ingroup-outgroup encounters: Reducing threat-perception and increasing fairness as possible solutions

Kleinewiese

2022

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Research on discriminating behavior against ethnic minorities in everyday situations is still a rather under-researched field, since most prior research on ethnic discrimination focuses on housing markets, job markets, criminal justice, institutions or discourses. This article contributes toward filling the research-gap on everyday discrimination by bringing together prior research from sociology and social-psychology, including threat and competition theories from integration research, social identity theory, particularism-universalism theory and experimental findings on fairness norms. It conceptually advances the field by combining them into an integrated interdisciplinary approach that can examine discriminating behavior in everyday situations. This approach studies the dynamics of ingroup-outgroup relationships, fairness norms and threat in regard to negative behavior toward others (e.g., a neighbor). In particular, it focusses on the dynamics under which negative behavior is more likely toward an ethnic outgroup-person than an ingroup-person (i.e., discriminating behavior). To scrutinize the expectations derived within this framework, a factorial survey experiment was designed, implemented and analyzed (by means of multilevel mixed-effects linear regressions and average marginal effects). The survey experiment presents a hypothetical scenario between two neighbors in order to measure the effects and dynamics of ingroup-outgroup relationships, fairness norms and threat on behavior. While no significant outgroup-effect can be found in the general analysis of the main effects, more in-depth analyses show an interplay of situational cues: Outgroup-discriminating behavior becomes significantly more likely when the “actor” has low general fairness norms and/or when threat-level in a situation is low. These results foreground the importance of interdisciplinary in-depth analyses of dynamics for understanding the conditions under which discriminating behavior takes place in everyday situations—and for deriving measures that can reduce discrimination.

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Ethnic discrimination in neighborhood ingroup-outgroup encounters: Reducing threat-perception and increasing fairness as possible solutions

Kleinewiese

2022

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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“…Similar news reporting linking the spread of Covid-19 to specific minority groups was -to the best of our knowledge -absent in the Swiss press. Third, our study covers the entire country of Switzerland, limiting the risk of sample bias for general statements (Auer and Ruedin 2022). Fourth, we apply a randomization approach in which we not only vary the name in an automatic platformemail as in Verhaeghe and Ghekiere (2020), but also other important dimensions as elaborated in Section 3.…”

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No sign of increased ethnic discrimination during a crisis: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic

Auer

Ruedin

Belle

2023

Socio-Economic Review

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When crises hit, social theory predicts increased hostility toward immigrants. We exploit the Covid-19 pandemic as a unique exogenous crisis and examine whether discrimination increased in its wake. Repeating a field experiment in the Swiss housing market in 2018 and 2020, we find no evidence of increased discrimination against the most important immigrant groups in Switzerland. Contrarily, when uncertainty dominates the market, proprietors appear to change their selection behavior by substituting signals of ethnicity for other markers of solvency and reliability and, consequently, invitation rates for immigrants increase relative to native house-hunters. We conclude that crises do not necessarily increase discriminatory behavior in market situations.

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Experimental evidence on how implicit racial bias affects risk preferences

Auer,

Ruedin

2023

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Have any data been collected for this study already?No, no data have been collected for this study yet.2) What's the main question being asked or hypothesis being tested in this study?We expect that levels of discrimination vary by incentive structure (e.g. whether participants rank players or give ratings as well as whether participants get paid according to the strength of their team). Furthermore, we hypothesize that participants discriminate more in the games where they have to make decisions in a low information environment ("pick one", "lottery").3) Describe the key dependent variable(s) specifying how they will be measured.We use several outcome variables. In our case, discrimination consists of the systematic preference for lighter skin colour. Depending on the game, the outcome variable is a rating of a player's skills or a preference for one player over one or a group of other players. 4) How many and which conditions will participants be assigned to?Participants will be randomly allocated to different conditions.At the meta-level, we indicate that the initial team is either "already quite good" or "has much room for improvement". The actual strength of the three players is fixed at an average of 75.At the meta-level, we either show all 4 skill indicators or only a random subset of 3 of them. With only three skill indicators shown, decision-making occurs under uncertainty.At the meta-level, we either offer a certain pay-off (€0.50 plus average team strength at the end), or an uncertain pay-off that depends on beating a rival team (€1.50 in winning, €0.50 if losing). In both instances, the possible range of pay-offs is €0.50 to €1.50. In the second variant, the probability of winning depends on the average team strength at the end. For the randomly selected control group, we don't offer any financial incentive on top of the 0.50€

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How one gesture curbed ethnic discrimination

Cited by 4 publications

References 68 publications

Ethnic discrimination in neighborhood ingroup-outgroup encounters: Reducing threat-perception and increasing fairness as possible solutions

Ethnic discrimination in neighborhood ingroup-outgroup encounters: Reducing threat-perception and increasing fairness as possible solutions

No sign of increased ethnic discrimination during a crisis: evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic

Experimental evidence on how implicit racial bias affects risk preferences

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