Are Unidentified Terrorist Suspects Always Muslims? How Terrorism News Shape News Consumers’ Automatic Activation of Muslims as Perpetrators

Two experimental studies investigated how news reports about terrorist attacks committed by unidentified perpetrators influence beliefs about the perpetrators and Muslims in general. In Study 1, a quota-based sample of 354 Germans was exposed to terror news coverage describing either non-Muslim or M...

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Main Authors: Desirée Schmuck, Jörg Matthes, Christian von Sikorski, Nicole Materne, Ekata Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-09-01
Series:Religions
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/10/286