Xenophobia

New research finds Germans are less likely to help a hijab-wearing Muslim woman, but this bias fades if she demonstrates agreement with the national consensus that littering is bad.

Countries riven by inequality and xenophobia won't be resilient to climate change—which means that the fight against nationalism and the fight against global warming are actually one and the same.

New research finds that the famous Dunning-Kruger Effect extends to the way we think about our own racism and sexism.

In Twitter responses to a Paris terrorist attack, shared sadness gave way to expressions of solidarity.

The evidence suggests that, in the long run, immigration is good for America.

For a politician who wants to trigger nativist revulsion, a metaphor can be as effective as an explicit insult.

New research points to a possible precursor to America's suicide and opioid epidemics.

New research finds that residents of the Southeast, Midwest, and Mountain Northwest are more likely to view the caravan as a threat than their counterparts in the Northeast and Southwest—where immigrants make up a larger share of the local population.

New research finds that majority-group members are wary of newcomers who hold dual identities.

New research finds that ethnocentrism and political oppression are more prevalent in the southern part of the Northern Hemisphere, and vice-versa.

White Americans hold many negative stereotypes about undocumented workers.

People holding German flags arrive at a right-wing protest gathering near a statue of Karl Marx the day after a man was stabbed and died of his injuries on August 27th, 2018, in Chemnitz, Germany.

Most of the Islamophobic incidents detailed in a new report involved restricted travel following the administration's repeated attempts to enact a travel ban affecting people from Muslim-majority nations.

New research finds nationalism is not strongly associated with anti-immigrant views.

Anti-immigrant rhetoric may affect a broader population of people than previously thought.

New research suggests Trump's anti-immigrant message kick-started his campaign.

New research finds fears of a major demographic shift can evoke anger, which, in turn, produces prejudice.

But it's got everything to do with xenophobia.

"There is a TV crew here from Texas called Infowars. They are the good ones—they are for Trump. Be nice to them."

And what to make of his indictment of the xenophobia plaguing Europe’s left.

A political scientist offers some preliminary thoughts on why the election results surprised pretty much everyone.

National pride, not economic dislocation, fuels the current wave of right-wing populism.

In the aftermath of the horrific terror attacks in Paris, it's important that the West not play right into the terrorist state's hands.