Susanne Veit

• Doctor of Psychology
• Head of DeZIM.lab at DeZIM Institut

We use data from a cross-nationally harmonised field experiment to examine discrimination towards Muslim job applicants in five European countries (Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom). We focus on job applicants originating from countries that have a substantial Muslim population: of these, some signalled closeness to Is...

Focusing on birthplace (foreign vs. domestic) and origin group (European vs. Middle Eastern or African), this article examines the effects of cultural distance signals on discrimination against ethnic minority job applicants. Drawing on a cross-nationally harmonised correspondence test (N = 5780), we investigate how employers in five Western Europe...

Previous studies aimed at explaining populist support emphasize the crucial role of populist attitudes and ideology among the general population. With respect to the role of discontent and grievances as drivers of populist support—often at the heart of theoretical work on populism—however, empirical results are rather mixed. We argue that the appar...

Stereotype content researchers have grown accustomed to ask participants how ‘society’ views social groups to tap into culturally shared stereotype content and to reduce social desirability bias (J Person Soc Psychol, 82, 2002, 878). However, methodological and theoretical considerations raise questions about this common practice, and stereotype co...

Several studies suggest a negative impact of ethnic diversity on cooperation, but most of them rely on attitudinal and other indirect measurements of cooperation or are derived from the artificial laboratory setting. We conducted a field experiment based on the lost-letter technique across 52 neighborhoods in Berlin, Germany. The study has two aims...

The success of right-wing populist parties (RPPs) is often attributed to their deployment of the rhetoric of fear that capitalizes on societal crisis and corresponding anxieties. However, empirical evidence on the relationship between anxiety and support for RPP (RPP support) remains inconclusive. We argue that right-wing authoritarian (RWA) and po...

We relied on a content analysis of freely generated stereotypes about Muslims and Muslim-majority immigrant groups from a representative sample of Dutch natives. Building on intersectionality theory and stereotype prototypicality, we hypothesized and found that ethnic-group stereotypes more accurately reflect stereotypes of ethnic-minority men comp...

The DeZIM Picture Database: Faces (Veit & Essien, 2022) contains portraits of women and men that can be used as stimulus material in procedures such as the Implicit Association Test and the Affect Misattribution Procedure. They were taken by a professional photographer between late 2020 and early 2021 and are available for download and use via DeZI...

This study investigates peoples' prosocial attitudes and real‐life prosocial behaviour towards different ethnic groups during the COVID‐19 pandemic, taking Germany as an empirical example. In a preregistered multi‐study design, we examined: (a) who receives help, (b) who helps and (c) what explains prosocial behaviour. In study 1, we conducted a la...

We present the first large-scale comparative field experiment on appearance-based racial discrimination in hiring conducted in Europe. Using a harmonized methodology, we sent fictitious résumés to real vacancies in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, randomly varying applicants’ ethnic ancestry (signaled foremost by name) and applicants’ racial app...

The acceptance of new arrivals has become an important topic regarding the social cohesion of the receiving countries. However, previous studies focused only on the native population's drivers of attitudes towards immigrants, disregarding that immigrant-origin inhabitants now form a considerable part of the population. To test whether the drivers f...

Customer verbal aggression is a core social stressor among retail workers which impairs wellbeing via emotional dissonance. This study examined two moderators-supervisor support and ethnic minority status-in this well-established relationship. In addition, it tested a moderated moderated mediation model to explore whether the moderation effects of...

We examine the penalties faced by veiled and unveiled Muslim women when applying for jobs in three European labour markets: Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. We rely on recent literature comparing public opposition towards Muslims in general and opposition to Muslims’ religious practices, such as the wearing of the hijab. Based on a cross-nation...

When does anger lead to greater polarization? As societal polarization and political polarization increase so does academic interest in its antecedents. One important cause of polarization appears to be anger. However, existing research linking anger and political polarization has focused primarily on the context of partisanship and did not disting...

Work teams are becoming increasingly heterogeneous with respect to their team members’ ethnic backgrounds. Two lines of research examine ethnic diversity in work teams: The compositional approach views team-level ethnic heterogeneity as a team characteristic, and relational demography views individual-level ethnic dissimilarity as an individual mem...

Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der aktuellen Forschung zu ethnischer Diskriminierung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf sozialpsychologischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Erklärungsansätzen und auf den Ergebnissen sogenannter Korrespondenztests, die sich zunehmender Beliebtheit erfreuen und robuste Hinweise auf ethnische...

People from marginalized groups are often discriminated against in traditional recruitment processes. Yet as companies faced with skill shortages change their recruitment strategies, the question arises as to whether modern recruitment trends such as the use of professional social network sites, active sourcing, and recruitment assignment to extern...

Blaming immigrants seems to be in part motivated by the need for control. However, three alternative explanations have been proposed as to why blaming bolsters feelings of control. First, blaming may restore a sense of an orderly world in which negative events can be attributed to a clear cause (causal attribution). Second, blaming others may stren...

We tested whether signaling warmth and competence (“Big Two”) in job applications increases hiring chances. Drawing on a field experimental data from five European countries, we analyzed the responses of employers ( N = 13,162) to applications from fictitious candidates of different origin: native candidates and candidates of European, Asian, or Mi...

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In this study we compare rates of discrimination across German-born applicants from thirty-five ethnic groups in which various racial and religious treatment groups are embedded, this study allows us to better distinguish taste and statistical sources of discrimination, and to assess the relative importance of ethnicity, phenotype and religious aff...

In recent years, right-winged populist movements gained power in many countries of the world. Most researchers point to anti-elitism as the central element of populism, suggesting that society is ultimately separated into two homogenous and antagonistic groups: “the pure, good people” and “the corrupt elite”. Since populism is a thin ideology with...

Both, in Germany as well as the USA, right-wing populist voters are characterized by anti-elitist attitudes and glorification of the past. However, differences between such voters and the general public are more substantive in Germany and only in Germany right-wing populist voters are also characterized by a strong sense of societal crisis. Hence,...

Previous studies have found that the labour market outcomes of Turkish minorities are slightly better in Germany than in the Netherlands. In this paper we test one of the explanations: differences in ethnic discrimination in hiring. We use a harmonised field experiment to test whether discrimination against job candidates of Turkish origin (age 23–...

Purpose: Team members differ from one another regarding many aspects such as age, ethnicity, and professional qualification. According to the categorization elaboration model, salient differences can reduce group functioning as a consequence of in- and out-group categorizations and intergroup biases. The present survey experiment examines this assu...

Andere Werte, weniger Chancen Kulturelle Distanz erklärt Diskriminierung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt

This technical report describes the design of the GEMM study, a cross-national harmonized field experiment on ethnic labour market discrimination: Please cite as: Lancee, B., Birkelund, G., Coenders, M., Di Stasio, V., Fernández Reino, M., Heath, A., Koopmans, R., Larsen, E., Polavieja, J., Ramos, M., Thijssen, L., Veit, S., Yemane, R., & Zwier,...

The Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration & Markets (GEMM) project is a large-scale project investigating causes and consequences of inequality on the labor market. To do so, a large-scale comparative field experiment on discrimination in hiring behaviour was conducted in five countries: The United Kingdom (UK), Spain (ES), Germany (DE), Norway (N...

The Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration & Markets (GEMM) project is a large-scale project investigating causes and consequences of inequality on the labor market. To do so, a large-scale comparative field experiment on discrimination in hiring behavior was conducted in five countries: The United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Norway and the Netherland...

We conducted a large-scale field experiment to investigate the drivers of discrimination against second generation immigrant job applicants. To these ends, we sent thousands of applications from fictitious persons to real job openings in eight professions all over Germany. Next to job applicants’ ethnicity (German or migration background in one out...

The Arbeitsmarktdiskriminierung “ADIS” project is a large scale correspondence study that was conducted in Germany between October 2014 and April 2016 with the aim to study labor market discrimination against second generation immigrants. In particular, the experiment was designed for two purposes: First, to decompose drivers of ethnic discriminati...

This study not only shows that the empirically well-established negative relationship between residential diversity and trust in neighbors holds for the case of Germany, but goes beyond existing research by providing experimental evidence on the causal nature of the diversity effect. Respondents exposed to experimental stimuli that made salient the...

Zum Zusammenhang zwischen ethnischer Heterogenität, Sozialkapital (Vertrauen, freiwilliges Engagement, Mitgliedschaft in Organisationen und Vereinen etc.) und der Bereitstellungöffentlicher Güter lassen sich aus bislang vorliegenden Studien keine eindeutigen Befunde ableiten. Dies gilt insbesondere für den europäischen Kontext. Das Projekt Ethnisch...

Der vorliegende Bericht präsentiert die Ergebnisse der vom Präsidium der Freien Universität Berlin in Auftrag gegebenen Befragung der Bachelorstudierenden zu zentralen Fragen des Studiums an der Freien Universität Berlin. Die Befragung wurde im Juni 2008 vom Arbeitsbereich Schulpädagogik und Schulentwicklungsforschung der Freien Universität Berlin...