Perpetrator Religion and Perceiver's Political Ideology Affect Processing and Communication of Media Reports of Violence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Samia Habib (0000-0003-2021-1801, Boston University), Laura Adelman (0000-0002-8936-9036, Utrecht University), Levi Adelman (Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA), Bernhard Leidner (0000-0003-3315-5781, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Shaheen Pasha (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Razvan Sibii (University of Massachusetts Amherst) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 63-75 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590 |
| Publisher | Hogrefe Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1027/1864-9335/a000385 |
| OpenAlex | W2954397673 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 31 |
People's interpretations of media reports about crimes may be biased by their motivations to construct and protect their worldviews and, relatedly, by criminals' group membership. Two large-scale experiments ( Ns = 248 and 1,115) investigated how American adults interpret reports of crimes committed by either a Christian or Muslim, and how these interpretations depend on political ideology. Results show liberals attributing crimes more to religion for Christian rather than Muslim offenders, with the opposite effect for conservatives. Importantly, these biases also influenced how people communicated the news report to others. Additionally, evidence suggests that attitudes toward Islam and not toward Muslims may explain these effects. Implications for how political ideology affects interpretation and communication of media portrayals of Muslims are discussed
Affect (linguistics · Construct (python library · Criminology · Ideology · Interpretation (philosophy · Islam · Political science · Politics · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence · Law · Social Psychology
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Motivated Reasoning With Stereotypes
Tweeting From Left to Right
False-Positive Psychology
“Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill”
Speaking Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths
The Ideological-Conflict Hypothesis
Political Correctness Beliefs, Threatened Identities, and Social Attitudes
Racial and mental illness stereotypes and discrimination
Intervening in the Media's Influence on Stereotypes of Race and Ethnicity
They're all the same, sometimes
How terrorism news reports increase prejudice against outgroups
Differentiating Islamophobia
Principled Tolerance and the American Mass Public
Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations
Implicit and explicit prejudice and interracial interaction
Reconstruing Intolerance
Cultural cognition of scientific consensus
The Secret Lives of Liberals and Conservatives
Political communication in a high-choice media environment
The Mechanics of Motivated Reasoning
The case for motivated reasoning
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |