No compassion for Muslims?
- Autor(en)
- Desiree Schmuck, Jörg Matthes, Christian von Sikorski
- Abstrakt
Islamist terrorist attacks have become a salient threat to Western countries, and news coverage about such crimes is a key predictor of public emotional reactions and policy support. We examine the effects of two key characteristics of terrorism news coverage: (1) the victim’s religion and (2) first-person narratives that facilitate perspective taking. A quota-based experiment (N = 354) revealed that irrespective of the narrative type, news reports that mention the victims’ Muslim religion induce less anger and compassion, but more joy among non-Muslim news consumers. However, fear was equally induced by all news articles. As a consequence, fear, anger, and joy predicted support for more restrictive terrorism policies, while anger and compassion were related to more support for victim compensation.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
- Externe Organisation(en)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universität Koblenz-Landau
- Journal
- Crime & Delinquency
- Band
- 69
- Seiten
- 1020-1043
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 24
- ISSN
- 0011-1287
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287211000626
- Publikationsdatum
- 03-2021
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 508007 Kommunikationswissenschaft, 508014 Publizistik
- Schlagwörter
- ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Law, Pathology and Forensic Medicine
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 16 – Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und starke Institutionen
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/no-compassion-for-muslims(e748e6fe-843f-4580-9d38-fd884a80ce7c).html