“Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill”: Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions About Violent Actors

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“Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill” : Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions About Violent Actors. / Noor, Masi; Kteily, Nour; Siem, Birte et al.

in: Social Psychological and Personality Science, Jahrgang 10, Nr. 4, 01.05.2019, S. 485-493.

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title = "“Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill”: Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions About Violent Actors",
abstract = "We investigated whether motivated reasoning rooted in partisanship affects the attributions individuals make about violent attackers{\textquoteright} underlying motives and group memberships. Study 1 demonstrated that on the day of the Brexit referendum pro-leavers (vs. pro-remainers) attributed an exculpatory (i.e., mental health) versus condemnatory (i.e., terrorism) motive to the killing of a pro-remain politician. Study 2 demonstrated that pro-immigration (vs. anti-immigration) perceivers in Germany ascribed a mental health (vs. terrorism) motive to a suicide attack by a Syrian refugee, predicting lower endorsement of punitiveness against his group (i.e., refugees) as a whole. Study 3 experimentally manipulated target motives, showing that Americans distanced a politically motivated (vs. mentally ill) violent individual from their in-group and assigned him harsher punishment—patterns most pronounced among high-group identifiers.",
keywords = "attributions, mental illness, motivated reasoning, punitiveness, terrorism, Social Work and Social Pedagogics",
author = "Masi Noor and Nour Kteily and Birte Siem and Agostino Mazziotta",
year = "2019",
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