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Description: Given the current political debates regarding the extent to which immigration impacts social, political, and economic change in the United States, the present study seeks to empirically test attitudes and emotions toward immigrants. The goal of this project is to test the extent to which anger produces outgroup derogation motives and fear produces ingroup protection motives as a function of perceived cultural change. In addition, we are interesting in understanding the degree to which anger and fear produce collective angst as a function of perceived cultural change caused by an influx of immigrants in the United States. Finally, we will explore the relationship between perceived cultural change and nostalgia.