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标题：Gender and Political Conservatism as Predictors of Blaming Asian Victims of Hate Crimes in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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作者：Niwako Yamawaki ; Jane Green ; Alice Nuo-Yi Wang 等
期刊名称：Psychology
印刷版ISSN：2152-7180
电子版ISSN：2152-7199
出版年度：2021
卷号：12
期号：8
页码：1184-1197
DOI：10.4236/psych.2021.128073
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential impact of U.S. government official’s comments regarding the source of COVID-19 on individuals’ perceptions and tendencies to blame Asian victims of hate crimes in the U.S. Moreover, we examined how political conservatism and beliefs about the origin and spreading of COVID-19 impact participants’ victim blaming toward Asian victims of hate crimes. Participants (N = 100; 46 women, 54 men) were recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Participants were randomly assigned to read one of the two scenarios that either discussed COVID-19 with no direct inferences of blame toward the origin of COVID-19 or with directly placed blame on the origin of COVID-19. There were no significant main effects of the scenario or participants’ gender on blaming the victim. However, we found that men who were presented COVID-19 origin information were more likely to blame Asian victims compared to men who were not given origin information. Moreover, political conservatism was a significant predictor of blaming Asian victims of hate crimes. Possible explanations for the results and future research directions were discussed.
关键词：Anti-Asian Hate Crimes;Victim Blaming;Political Conservatism;Government Official;COVID-19