A few days after the tragic San Bernardino attacks, presidential hopeful Donald Trump first promised a “Muslim Ban.” Less than one week into his presidency, Trump made good on his promise and signed executive order (EO) 13769, which denied citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries entry into the United States. …
In previous work published in Political Behavior, we demonstrated that individual-level opinions moved decisively against the ban in a matter of days. We argued that an influx of information depicted the ban as distinctly un-American and in violation of the principle of American religious freedom, which invoked meaningful and new evaluative criteria about the policy. This, in turn, provoked attitude change, particularly among high American identifiers, who likely saw a clear incompatibility between American values and the EO.
The present study extends previous research by examining whether within-subject shifts against the ban lasted over an extended period of time. CONT.
Kassra A. R. Oskooii, Nazita Lajevardi & Loren Collingwood, Political Behavior