{"id":1327,"date":"2018-01-11T11:06:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T11:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2018-06-13T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:55:22","slug":"perceptions-on-immigration-and-political-trust-shaped-brexit-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/01\/11\/perceptions-on-immigration-and-political-trust-shaped-brexit-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Perceptions on immigration and political trust shaped Brexit vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"content-main\">\n<p class=\"lead\"><strong>One explanation for Brexit suggests it reflected people\u2019s worries about immigration. Another is that it reflected people\u2019s distrust of the political establishment. Now new research from psychologists on people&#8217;s attitudes in Kent and Scotland suggests that it was the link between these two factors that was particularly important.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"content-body\">\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<div class=\"content-main\">\n<p>Researchers at the University\u00a0<strong>surveyed people just before the UK Referendum vote in June 2016<\/strong>\u00a0and found that <strong>concern about the\u00a0impact of immigration and a distrust of politicians<\/strong>\u00a0combined to amplify feelings of threat and lack of identification with Europe in Brexit voters.<\/p>\n<p>The study, led by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/abramsd\/\">Professor Dominic Abrams<\/a>, of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/index.html\">School of Psychology<\/a>, featured\u00a0<strong>online surveys conducted with 1,000 residents of Kent,<\/strong>\u00a0where a majority said they intended to vote to leave, and 1,000 people in Scotland, where a majority said they intended to vote to remain.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, please go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/16466\/perceptions-on-immigration-and-political-trust-shaped-brexit-vote\">Kent News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this research see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/research\/political-and-social-change\/index.html\">Political and Social Change<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One explanation for Brexit suggests it reflected people\u2019s worries about immigration. Another is that it reflected people\u2019s distrust of the political establishment. Now new research &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2018\/01\/11\/perceptions-on-immigration-and-political-trust-shaped-brexit-vote\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,3684,1029,140638,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}