The article “Imperfect Victims? Civilian Men, Vulnerability and Policy Preferences,” co-authored with Mattias Agerberg, is now included in the most recent issue of the American Political Science Review. Using survey experiments of U.S. and UK respondents, we show that people underestimate the extent to which civilian men become victims in war, consider them less innocent than female victims, and hold anti-male biases in refugee acceptance and support for humanitarian aid. Informing respondents about the heightened vulnerability of male civilians to being killed reduces these anti-male biases but does not eradicate them.
Anne-Kathrin Kreft 