Replication Data for: Terrorism and Immigration Policy Preferences

What is the causal impact of terrorism on immigration policy preferences? Under what circumstances and due to which psychological micro-mechanisms does this impact materialize? To answer these questions, we provide evidence from pre-registered and well-powered experiments for Germany and the United Kingdom. We find that anti-immigration responses to terrorism follow an emotional proximity rationale: terrorism leads to more restrictive migration policy preferences only among individuals with high levels of perceived insecurity, especially when terrorism occurs in their own country. Policy preferences are not affected by terrorism abroad or by information cues on the objectively low probability of being victimized.恐怖主义对移民政策偏好的因果效应究竟为何？此种影响会在何种情境下、经由何种心理微观机制得以实现？为解答上述问题，我们依托针对德国与英国开展的预注册、功效充足的实验获取实证依据。研究表明，民众针对恐怖主义的反移民回应遵循情感亲近性逻辑：仅当个体感知到较高水平的不安全感时，尤其是恐怖事件发生在其本国境内时，恐怖主义才会促使其移民政策偏好转向更为严格的方向。境外发生的恐怖主义事件，或是告知民众客观上遭受恐怖袭击概率极低的信息提示，均不会对其政策偏好产生影响。