ArticleNature human behaviour2023
The cost of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.
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- Did anti-Asian racism decrease after the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada?Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026Article
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- Psychosocial alterations during the COVID-19 pandemic and the global burden of anxiety and major depressive disorders in adolescents, 1990-2021: challenges in mental health amid socioeconomic disparities.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2024Review
- From Tweets to Streets: Observational Study on the Association Between Twitter Sentiment and Anti-Asian Hate Crimes in New York City from 2019 to 2022.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Observational
- Public opinion, racial bias and labour market outcomes in the USA.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Mental health priorities and cultural-responsiveness of the Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training for Asian immigrant populations in Greater Boston, Massachusetts.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Discrimination Experiences among Asian American and Pacific Islander Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Their Association with Mental Health Outcomes: Updated Findings from the COMPASS Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Persistence of anxiety among Asian Americans: racial and ethnic heterogeneity in the longitudinal trends in mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2024Article
- Psychological Distress and Behavioral Vigilance in Response to Minority Stress and Threat among Members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander Community during the COVID-19 Pandemic.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Article
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- The first-to-test bias: Impact of testing order on assigning responsibility for contagion.PloS one · 2024Article
- Pandemic Racism: Lessons on the Nature, Structures, and Trajectories of Racism During COVID-19.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2023Review
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Abstract
Anti-Chinese sentiment increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, presenting as a considerable spike in overt violence and hatred directed at Asian American individuals. However, it is less clear how subtle patterns of consumer discrimination, which are difficult to directly observe yet greatly impact Asian American livelihoods, changed through the pandemic. Here we examine this in the context of restaurants-ubiquitous small businesses that sell goods that are closely entwined with ethnicity. Using a series of surveys, online search trends and consumer traffic data, we find that Asian restaurants experienced an 18.4% decrease in traffic (estimated US$7.42 billion lost revenue in 2020) relative to comparable non-Asian restaurants, with greater decreases in areas with higher levels of support for Donald Trump. Our findings are consistent with the roles of collective blame, out-group homogeneity and ethnic misidentification in explaining how anti-China rhetoric can harm the Asian American community, underlining the importance of avoiding racism and stigmatization in political and public health communications.
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