The effects of anti-immigrant right-wing populist ads on implicit and explicit attitudes: A moderated mediation model

Autor(en)
Jörg Matthes, Desiree Schmuck
Abstrakt

Across Europe, the use of negative portrayals of immigrants in populist political advertising has dramatically increased. An experimental study tested the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions for the effects of such ads on explicit and implicit attitudes toward foreigners. Findings revealed that populist ads strengthened intergroup anxiety and negative stereotypes for voters with lower educational degrees. This, in turn, led to more negative explicit attitudes. However, we observed stronger effects of populist ads on implicit attitudes for individuals with higher educational degrees. The necessity of including explicit as well as implicit measures in political communication research is discussed.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Journal
Communication Research (CR)
Band
44
Seiten
556-581
Anzahl der Seiten
26
ISSN
0093-6502
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650215577859
Publikationsdatum
06-2017
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Communication, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/the-effects-of-antiimmigrant-rightwing-populist-ads-on-implicit-and-explicit-attitudes-a-moderated-mediation-model(cf94d5df-2576-4557-bbb3-494f9bd33eb1).html