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@ Christophe Blaison

Hi Chistoph, I was wondering whether you ever analyzed real rent levels in cities and whether you also find contrast effects there. Especially when analyzing rent level changes over time (when city hotspots change in terms of wether or not they exist and their relative salience)...

I had once the idea, but then it slipped out of my mind, that's a very good idea. Quite difficult to demonstrate a contrast effect because you need a control condition..I guess I just stopped because of this difficulty :) Then I wonder if you would find one at all because contrast effects depend on the spatial frame of reference. You may adopt one for a short period of time, which will elicit the contrast at the remotest location in the frame..but do you or a group of people adopt the same one long-term??

agreed. I was wondering whethr the location of the spots could serve a control condition if there were times in which they were no hotspots... would be probably very work-intensive...

Ah yes, of course, good idea. You still have the confound with time passing but that could work

yep, it would probably rather need to focus on relative rent levels...yes.

@Iniobong Essien

* Nice talk! Would also be interesting to see what the influence of group identity of the ethnically diverse place is on the way it is perceived by people outside this place. (Franz-Benjamin Mocnik)

Thanks, that's a great idea! -Iniobong

@Emily Esposito

Great talk! It is understandable that LGBTQ people are migrating based on gay culture and unfriendliness; but, you said that this was not classified as a person-environment fit in your analyses. I see migration for culture as a type of person-environment fit. Can you explain how migration for culture differs from the typical person-environment fit? (Ashley Krause, University of Florida)

Thank you! So the classification of LGB people migrating based on gay (un)friendliness doesn't affect the analyses, but were just how I categorized them. In a lot of person-environment fit literature, it's been about people having the same traits as their environment (agreeable people in agreeable places). So I wanted to make that distinction- that this isn't neccessarily that it's people having the same traits as their environment (in fact, some LGB people had pro-straight attitudes, that don't fit their environment). But this was just my conceptualization, and my way of making a distinction between my two similar hypotheses, and you make a good point that it is still "fit." -Emily

Great talk! What kind of implicit sexuality attitude test did you use in study 1?

I used the Implicit Association Test for sexuality attitudes! -Emily

@Emily - great talk! Can you quickly elaborate on how gay-friendliness was operationalized in the studies (a? I must've missed that part.

In Study 1, I used data from Public Religion Research Institute, where they asked about support of anti-discrimination laws for LGBT people, opposition to business refusing services to gay/lesbian people, and support of gay marriage, and then I aggregated respondents' scores on these questions at the regional level. In Study 2, I used data from each participant where they said the likelihood of gay people or straight people frequenting a place, found the difference (straight frequenting - gay frequenting) to find the perceived straight or gay culture of each place for each participant. -Emily

^would also be good to look at (specifically for lgb participants) the need to manage their identity and whether or not they anticipate being stigmatized for their identity

That's an interesting point, and definitely something worth looking at! Hopefully, these gay friendliness operationalization gets at that a little, but I'd definitely like to measure it directly!

@Drexler

Thanks so much for this talk! Given these place stereotype effects were found in the context of perceived criminality, do you expect the effects to generalize to other contexts too? For example, if a nonwhite person applying for a job lists their address for contact information, and that address shows that they live in a suburb.

Yes! Although we did not see a shift in prototypicality for the Black target as a function of context, I imagine that with a stronger manipulation and a less racialized outcome, we might see these effects. For example, a Black target with a suburban address might be evaluated more positively than a Black target with a city address. We might expect the same White targets, but stronger effects given greater shifts in prototypicality.

-->Thank you! (C. Dale Morrison, Ohio State University)

@Jimmy

Great Talk! And thanks for having answered my question. (Franz-Benjamin Mocnik)

Thank you for this great talk Jimmy. I was wondering: As an introduction you mentioned that people may process "irrelevant" places at a categorical level and "relevant" places at an individuating level - did you test this assumption in your studies in any way and do you think this is a prerequisite of the effect? So, do you think, if you’d manipulate whether people process e.g. churches at a categorical level and temples at an individuating level the effect would change? (Alexandra Goedderz)

Fantastic question Alex. I have not tested this formally, e.g., by manipulating tendency to categorize versus individuate. but I think it is worth testing empirically. - Jimmy

@Maria Lewicka

Maria, Thank you for your talk! I am interested to hear your thoughts on how historical continuity relates to opennes to change. Perhaps historical continuity relates to lengthened time perspective, such that a person can recognize previous changes in a place, and be more open to future changes?

Yes, This is a topic for further discussion. Anyway, focus on history does not mean focus on the past but on development - it is a narrative which connects past with present and future.

Thank you! I do also wonder if that effect predicting tolerance could be moderated by the locus on which a person is considering the history of the place--much in the way that place identity is sometimes use to keep 'others' out of a place that is historically made up of a certain demographic. I wonder what the diverging factor is there...

Perfect question. We are also wondering. History can close and it can open. We do get double effects, too. But in this study it was quite clear than when one ascribes this type of meaning to a place, it also helps to welcome change and diversity. Discussion over history can be very hot and they are. But what we try to study is people's willingness to explore the past on ther own - it is sort of a detective work and it really open up to different historical perspectives and facts (sometimes unpleasant).

This makes much sense- self-discovery of a fact probably provokes less reactance than something like historical discussion. Thanks for this clarificiation, I look forward to seeing more of your work in this topic! (-C. Dale Morrison)

I will send you some of my chapters/papers , e-mail?

That would be great and very appreciated, my email is: shaffer-morrison.1@osu.edu

After the invited speech. Thanks!

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