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29th APS Annual Convention · 2017

Should I Stay or Should I Go?: Questioning the Evidence for Border Bias

Boston, MA · May 2017

Poster Session · Cognitive

  • Isabel Bourget
    Bridgewater State University
  • Tyler Carlson
    Minnesota State University, Moorhead
  • Kyle Pollack
    Minnesota State University, Moorhead
  • Renee Comeau
    Bridgewater State University
  • Michael Root
    Bridgewater State University

Abstract

Border bias is the belief that abstract boundaries provide protection against threats. The current study changed how border bias was measured. Results of the study support our hypothesis that if the dependent variable is analyzed as a continuous rather than dichotomous variable, border bias will disappear.

Judgment and Decision Making

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