1999/02/01 by Andreas Klink, Ulrich Wagner · 2 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Demography #Ethnic discrimination #Ethnic group #Field (mathematics) #Geography #German #German population #Law #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research #Political science #Population #Psychology #Racial and Ethnic Identity Research #Refugee #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb01394.x
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A series of 14 field experiments on the differential treatment of ethnic majority and minority groups were conducted. In all studies, German participants were confronted with a German or a foreign confederate (ostensibly a member of the migrant‐worker population or a refugee/asylum seeker). In 9 experiments, the foreign confederate received worse treatment than did his German counterpart. Meta‐analyses showed a significant overall correlation between ethnic group membership and indexes of discrimination ( r = .24), which support the assumption of everyday ethnic discrimination in Germany. Categorizing studies according to the directness of interaction between confederate and participants revealed a significantly stronger discrimination in remote contact situations ( r = .34 vs. r = .17), replicating results of a review on American studies by Crosby, Bromley, and Saxe (1980).