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Gadarian, Shana. and Albertson, Bethany. "Fear and Learning in the Illegal Immigration Debate: Where do Anxious Citizens get their News?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211137_index.html>

Gadarian, S. K. and Albertson, B. , 2007-08-30 "Fear and Learning in the Illegal Immigration Debate: Where do Anxious Citizens get their News?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211137_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: As illegal immigration emerges again as a core political issue, we note that the effectiveness of campaign appeals on immigration is not well understood. In addition to understanding attitudes toward immigration policy, our second goal in this project is to use the issue of illegal immigration to explore the role of anxiety in responses to political appeals. According to the Affective Intelligence theory, anxiety motivates citizens to learn, pay more attention to news coverage, and base voting decisions on contemporary information rather than partisanship. Literature in cognitive psychology demonstrates that high stress and anxiety is associated with a tendency to pay closer attention to threatening information. We predict that anxious citizens will seek more information but that they will be attracted by threatening presentations of information and pay closest attention to threatening pieces information. In an experiment we induce emotions about immigration and then subjects are then given the opportunity to search for additional information in a website that we designed to mimic online news sources. The website has both immigration and non-immigration stories, and the immigration stories are between threatening coverage and non-threatening coverage. We find that anxious subject exhibit biased information processing; they pay closest attention to threatening information about immigration. Additionally, we find that there are two dimensions of anxiety about immigration – anxiety about the effect of immigrants on the country and anxiety on behalf of immigrants.

Do Immigrants Hurt Civic and Political Engagement? The Conditional Effects of Immigrant Diversity on Trust, Membership and Participation across 23 Countries, 1981-2001

Effects of Welfare Policies on Anti-Immigrant Attitudes: The Differences between Active Policies and Passive Policies