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How terrorism news reports increase prejudice against outgroups: a terror management account
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Abstract Three studies tested predictions derived from terror management theory (TMT) about the effects of terrorism news on prejudice. Exposure to terrorism news should confront receivers with thoughts about their own death, which, in turn, should increase prejudice toward outgroup members. Non-Muslim (Stud... mehr
Three studies tested predictions derived from terror management theory (TMT) about the effects of terrorism news on prejudice. Exposure to terrorism news should confront receivers with thoughts about their own death, which, in turn, should increase prejudice toward outgroup members. Non-Muslim (Studies 1-3) and Muslim (Study 3) participants were exposed to news about either Islamic terrorist acts or to control news. When Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam by an Islamic extremist during data-collection of Study 1, this event was included as a naturally occurring factor in the design. Consistent with TMT, terrorism news and Van Gogh’s murder increased death-related thoughts. Death-related thoughts, in turn, increased prejudiced attitudes toward out-group members, especially when participants had low self-esteem, and when terrorism was psychologically close. Terrorism news may inadvertently increase prejudiced attitudes towards outgroups when it reminds viewers of their own mortality.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Muslim
Klassifikation
Sozialpsychologie
Freie Schlagwörter
terrorism; terror management; death-related thoughts; prejudice; outgroup
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 453-459
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45 (2009) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2008.12.001
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)