The complexity and ambivalence of immigration attitudes: Ambivalent stereotypes predict conflicting attitudes toward immigration policies

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 342-356

  Reyna, Christine ^a   Wetherell, Geoffrey ^a   Dobria, Ovidiu ^b  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Malcolm X College   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambivalent stereotypes; Immigrant stereotypes; Immigration attitudes; Immigration policy

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; POLICY; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; STEREOTYPY; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880757171     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: 19390106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032942     Document Type: Article

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