Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
2-2019
Abstract
In six studies (N = 2,340), we identified one source of people’s differential support for resettling refugees in their country—their beliefs about whether the kind of person someone is can be changed (i.e., a growth mind-set) or is fixed (i.e., a fixed mind-set). U.S. and UK citizens who believed that the kind of person someone is can be changed were more likely to support resettling refugees in their country (Studies 1 and 2). Study 3 identified a causal relationship between the type of mind-set people hold and their support for resettling refugees. Importantly, people with a growth mind-set were more likely to believe that refugees can assimilate in the host society but not that they should assimilate, and the belief that refugees can assimilate mediated the relationship between people’s mind-sets and their support for resettling refugees (Studies 4–6). The findings identify an important antecedent of people’s support for resettling refugees and provide novel insights into the science of mind-sets.
Keywords
refugees, lay theories, mind-sets, fixed growth, assimilation, open data, open materials, preregistered
Discipline
Marketing
Research Areas
Marketing
Publication
Psychological Science
Volume
30
Issue
2
First Page
238
Last Page
249
ISSN
0956-7976
Identifier
10.1177/0956797618813561
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Citation
MADAN, Shilpa; BASU, Shankha; RATTAN, Aneeta; and SAVANI, Krishna.
Support for resettling refugees: The role of fixed versus growth mind-sets. (2019). Psychological Science. 30, (2), 238-249.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7244
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797618813561