Asylum seekers: How attributions and emotion affect Australians' views on mandatory detention of " the other"

There is little research regarding the social psychological processes shaping community opinions about asylum seeker policy. Here, we explored two issues by way of a random community survey of the Perth metropolitan area. We first examined whether the intergroup perceptions that occur when individua...

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Main Authors: Hartley, Lisa, Pedersen, Anne
Format: Journal Article
Published: Australian Psychological Association 2007
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Online Access:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1080/00049530701449455/abstract
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48323