Readings: Green et al. (2020).

Lecture slides

Web exercise 6b

Source: Green et al. (2020)., page 641.

Everyday contact experiences with persons of immigrant origin have the potential to reduce perceptions of symbolic and realistic threat posed by immigration. But we have also learned from (pettigrewIntergroupContactTheory1998?) that certain social conditions foster these effects, among them institutional support. Are more liberal integration policies such institutional support? That is, do liberal integration policies promote the degree to which contact experiences alleviate perceptions of symbolic and realistic threat? In this session, we will use our newly-acquired skills on how to run and interpret random intercept and slope models that include cross-level interactions to replicate the recent study of (greenWhenIntegrationPolicies2020?).