“Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill”: Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions About Violent Actors
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in: Social Psychological and Personality Science, Jahrgang 10, Nr. 4, 01.05.2019, S. 485-493.
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T1 - “Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill”
T2 - Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions About Violent Actors
AU - Noor, Masi
AU - Kteily, Nour
AU - Siem, Birte
AU - Mazziotta, Agostino
PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - We investigated whether motivated reasoning rooted in partisanship affects the attributions individuals make about violent attackers’ 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.
AB - We investigated whether motivated reasoning rooted in partisanship affects the attributions individuals make about violent attackers’ 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.
KW - attributions
KW - mental illness
KW - motivated reasoning
KW - punitiveness
KW - terrorism
KW - Social Work and Social Pedagogics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045066118&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1948550618764808
DO - 10.1177/1948550618764808
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85045066118
VL - 10
SP - 485
EP - 493
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
SN - 1948-5506
IS - 4
ER -