Abstract (eng)
Right-wing populist election posters often contain a threat to society posed by immigrants. A distinction can be made between the representation of a symbolic threat and the repre-sentation of an economic threat. To what extent these contents of election posters have an influence on the acculturation process has not yet been sufficiently investigated. Previous have mainly focused on the effects on explicit and implicit attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, a large number of the preceding studies make use of samples that show an above-average level of education. With the help of an experimental study, the effects of right-wing populist election posters, which represent a symbolic or economic threat ema-nating from foreigners, on the acculturation orientations of viewers and the perceived ac-culturation orientations of immigrants are examined. In the course of this analysis, the degree of trait anxiety of the viewer is taken into account in order to be able to show pos-sible influences of this moderator. It is shown, among other things, that people with a higher anxiety have a significantly higher state anxiety and prefer significantly more an assimilatory-segregatory-exclusionary acculturation orientation. However, these results can be seen under all experimental conditions, which is why the influence of right-wing populist election posters on people with a high degree of trait anxiety cannot be empirical-ly proven in this study. Further analysis, however, showed that older people tend to expe-rience a significant increase in state anxiety following the reception of right-wing populist election posters, which represent an economic threat posed by foreigners.