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towards asylum seekers. In the first study, support for immigrant policies was related negatively to
anger and positively to sympathy. In the second study, the effects of these emotional responses
were examined for two categories of asylum seekers: political (“real”) refugees and economic
(“fortune seeker”) refugees. Only feelings of sympathy affected support for political refugees,
whereas feelings of anger predicted policy support for economic refugees. In both studies, national
identification was negatively related to support for immigrant policies and did not moderate
emotional effects.
1016.3 Examining the bases of intergroup competition and their role in determining
immigration attitudes in New Zealand, A.M. Masgoret 1 , V. Esses 2 , C. Ward 1 , 1 Victoria
University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand; 2 University of Western Ontario, London, ON,
Canada
We examine the role of perceived competition for resources in determining attitudes toward
immigrants and immigration in New Zealand. Based on models of intergroup competition, we
considered two variables: (1) Resource stress (i.e., projected number of immigrants, and (2)
Presence of a potentially competitive outgroup (i.e., the economic success of immigrants).
Interaction effects indicated that both variables affected attitudes toward immigration and
willingness to offer assistance to immigrants. Individuals who focused on the economic success of
immigrants and who thought the number of immigrants was increasing reported more negative
attitudes and were the least willing to offer assistance to immigrants.
1016.4 Shifting majority’s acculturation orientations: The benefits and limits of ingroup focused
and outgroup focused emotions, R. Brown 1 , A. Bonacossa 2 , 1 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK;
2
New School University, New York, NY, USA
Two experiments assessed whether the acculturation orientation of majority group members can
be shifted towards a more integrationist perspective. In the first, positive affect towards the
ingroup (presence vs. absence) and guilt for the ingroups’s wrongdoings (presence vs. absence)
were induced in Italian students. Simultaneous activation of both sentiments encouraged more
separatist strategies, independently of group identification. In the second, English undergraduates
read about the treatment of asylum-seekers in which source of information
(ingroup/outgroup/control) varied. Low identifiers felt guiltier and were more willing to integrate
asylum-seekers with an ingroup source; high identifiers were more responsive to an outgroup
member.
1017 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Economic psychology
Convener and Chair: C. Roland-Levy, France
1017.1 Children's understanding of supply and demand effects on prices, D. Leiser, R. Tamir,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Negev, Israel
This study investigated children's understanding of the effect of supply and demand on the
exchange value of everyday goods and services. Sixty-four Children of ages 6, 8, 10 and 12 were
told short stories and asked to predict whether certain circumstances would affect price or
exchange rate. Two dimensions were manipulated in the stories: Money vs. barter, and supply vs.
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