In multiple experiments each involving more than 100 adult participants who played an economic game that simulated the relationship between citizens and refugees, citizens provided less aid to refugees when doing so incurred a cost to the citizens compared with when aid incurred no cost; the cost citizens were willing to pay increased with the citizens' degree of prosocial orientation and with the refugees' needs and efforts to integrate, according to the authors.
Article #18-05601: "Costs, needs, and integration efforts shape helping behavior toward refugees," by Robert Böhm, Maik M. P. Theelen, Hannes Rusch, and Paul A. M. Van Lange.
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