Inmigrazioari buruzko diskurtso heuristikoaren azterketa

Abstract

Social cognition is the study of how people select, interpret, and use information to make judgments about themselves and the social world. People use mental shortcuts to simplify the amount of information they receive from the environment (Heuristics reasoning). The aim of this paper is to analyze in which way these shortcuts affect the construction of judgment about immigration.

We found out that students' beliefs about immigration range from impeccable ideas to relentless (implacable) ones. Students' beliefs about immigration seem to be related to heuristic reasoning. In fact, our results point out that stereotypical thinking could come from this use of heuristics or, may be, they function much like a "stereotype". These findings are quite consistent with the predominant dual-process accounts of reasoning and making decision as applied to development and education.