Ethnic diversity, trust, and the mediating role of positive and negative interethnic contact: a priming experiment (2014)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24913947"Ethnic diversity is associated with lower trust for both natives and immigrants."
"For both, the cognitive salience of ethno-cultural diversity causally reduces trust."
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Ethnic Diversity and Its Impact on Community Social Cohesion and Neighborly Exchange (2014)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/juaf.12015"Our findings indicate that social cohesion and neighborly exchange are attenuated in ethnically diverse suburbs."
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Ethnic Diversity and Trust (2011)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1465-7287.2010.00215.x"I find a negative relationship between ethnic polarization and trust and a U‐shaped relationship between ethnic fractionalization and trust."
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Effects of Heterogeneity and Homophily on Cooperation (2015)
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0190272515612403"The results show that heterogeneity hampers between-group cooperation at the dyadic level. In addition, endogenous sorting mitigates this negative effect of heterogeneity on cooperation."
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Predicting Cross-National Levels of Social Trust: Global Pattern or Nordic Exceptionalism? (2005)
https://academic.oup.com/esr/article-abstract/21/4/311/556895"Cause and effect relations are impossible to specify exactly but ethnic homogeneity and Protestant traditions seem to have a direct impact on trust, and an indirect one through their consequences for good government, wealth and income equality."
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The Geography of Ethnic Violence (2015)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300799700_The_Geography_of_Ethnic_Violence"Our analysis supports the hypothesis that violence between groups can be inhibited by both physical and political boundaries."
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Good Fences: The Importance of Setting Boundaries for Peaceful Coexistence (2014)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0095660"Our analysis shows that peace does not depend on integrated coexistence, but rather on well defined topographical and political boundaries separating groups, allowing for partial autonomy within a single country."
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Does Ethnic Diversity Have a Negative Effect on Attitudes towards the Community? (2015)
https://academic.oup.com/esr/article/32/1/54/2404332"Studies demonstrate a negative association between community ethnic diversity and indicators of social cohesion (especially attitudes towards neighbours and the community), suggesting diversity causes a decline in social cohesion."
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Trust in a Time of Increasing Diversity (2014)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9477.2012.00289.x"The results suggest that social trust is negatively affected by ethnic diversity."
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Ethnic Diversity, Economic and Cultural Contexts, and Social Trust (2014)
https://academic.oup.com/sf/article-abstract/93/3/1211/2332107?redirectedFrom=fulltext"The results show that across European regions, different aspects of immigration-related diversity are negatively related to social trust. In longitudinal perspective, an increase in immigration is related to a decrease in social trust."
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Does Diversity Really Work? (2007)
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12802663"A study conducted by Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam suggests that diversity hurts civic life and that differences can actually translate into distrust. The political scientist and author explains his findings on the flip-side of cultural diversity."
"The more diverse the group around us, ethnically, in our neighborhood, the less we trust anybody, including people who look like us. Whites trust whites less. Blacks trust blacks less, in more diverse settings."
