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“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, Vol. 10, No. 4, 01.05.2019, p. 485-493.

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Harvard

Noor, M, Kteily, N, Siem, B & Mazziotta, A 2019, '“Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill”: Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions About Violent Actors', Social Psychological and Personality Science, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 485-493. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618764808

APA

Noor, M., Kteily, N., Siem, B., & Mazziotta, A. (2019). “Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill”: Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions About Violent Actors. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 10(4), 485-493. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550618764808

Vancouver

Noor M, Kteily N, Siem B, Mazziotta A. “Terrorist” or “Mentally Ill”: Motivated Biases Rooted in Partisanship Shape Attributions About Violent Actors. Social Psychological and Personality Science. 2019 May 1;10(4):485-493. doi: 10.1177/1948550618764808

Bibtex

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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.",
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