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July 27, 2026Political GeographyOpen Access

Fostering refugee receptivity through perspective taking: Evidence from Thailand

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EHEnze HanSKSirada KhemanitthathaiXLXiaojun Li

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Overview

Randomized trial shows increased support for refugees in Thailand through perspective-taking exercises, suggesting effective interventions.

Key Points

  • The research aims to evaluate how perspective taking affects attitudes toward refugees in Thailand.
  • Conducted a pre-registered survey experiment with Thai participants
  • Participants engaged in a perspective-taking exercise by imagining themselves as refugees
  • Follow-up survey performed two months later to assess the impact
  • Participants engaging in perspective-taking expressed greater support for hosting Myanmar refugees (event rate x%)
  • Support for signing the UN Refugee Convention significantly increased in the perspective-taking group (HR=Y, 95% CI Z-W, p=Q)
  • No significant effects observed from treatments focusing on financial burden or humanitarian sympathy

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Han et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a67004840bca442e0d4a0aahttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2026.103627
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