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Erratum: Ethnic change, personality, and polarization over immigration in the American public (Public Opinion Quarterly (2020) DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv022)

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Johnston, CD; Newman, BJ; Velez, YR
Published in: Public Opinion Quarterly
March 1, 2020

In Johnston, Newman and Velez (2015), we examine how personality traits related to uncertainty aversion moderate the effect of local ethnic change on perceived cultural threat from immigrants and on immigration-related policy preferences. In two studies-one observational and one experimental-we find that ethnic change increases perceptions of threat and decreases support for immigration among uncertainty-averse citizens but has the opposite effect for the uncertainty tolerant. Neither study finds evidence for similar associations with levels of ethnic diversity. The experimental analyses reported in the original published paper draw on three waves of data collected from Amazon Mechanical Turk and erroneously include responses from workers who participated in the study more than once. In this erratum, we report results from identical models with a corrected dataset that excludes repeat survey takers. The primary conclusion of the study-that ethnic change polarizes immigration opinion by citizen personality-is not affected by this error. However, the corrected results suggest that a randomly assigned experimental treatment containing only ethnic cues-that is, without information about changes in ethnic composition-may also induce personality-based polarization of immigration attitudes relative to a control condition. We discuss possible interpretations of this result.

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Public Opinion Quarterly

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1537-5331

ISSN

0033-362X

Publication Date

March 1, 2020

Volume

84

Issue

1

Start / End Page

182 / 187

Related Subject Headings

  • Political Science & Public Administration
  • 4408 Political science
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 1606 Political Science
  • 1505 Marketing
 

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Johnston, C. D., Newman, B. J., & Velez, Y. R. (2020). Erratum: Ethnic change, personality, and polarization over immigration in the American public (Public Opinion Quarterly (2020) DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv022). Public Opinion Quarterly, 84(1), 182–187. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaa003
Johnston, C. D., B. J. Newman, and Y. R. Velez. “Erratum: Ethnic change, personality, and polarization over immigration in the American public (Public Opinion Quarterly (2020) DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv022).” Public Opinion Quarterly 84, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 182–87. https://doi.org/10.1093/poq/nfaa003.
Johnston, C. D., et al. “Erratum: Ethnic change, personality, and polarization over immigration in the American public (Public Opinion Quarterly (2020) DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv022).” Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 84, no. 1, Mar. 2020, pp. 182–87. Scopus, doi:10.1093/poq/nfaa003.
Journal cover image

Published In

Public Opinion Quarterly

DOI

EISSN

1537-5331

ISSN

0033-362X

Publication Date

March 1, 2020

Volume

84

Issue

1

Start / End Page

182 / 187

Related Subject Headings

  • Political Science & Public Administration
  • 4408 Political science
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 1606 Political Science
  • 1505 Marketing