dc.contributor.author |
Shaver, JH |
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dc.contributor.author |
Sibley, Christopher |
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dc.contributor.author |
Osborne, Daniel |
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dc.contributor.author |
Bulbulia, Joseph |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2017-11-26T21:21:06Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2017 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
PLoS ONE 12(3):19 pages Article number e0174606 2017 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
1932-6203 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/36555 |
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dc.description.abstract |
News coverage of Islamic extremism is reigniting debates about the media's role in promoting prejudice toward Muslims. Psychological theories of media-induced prejudice date to the 1950's, and find support from controlled experiments. However, national-scale studies of media effects on Muslim prejudice are lacking. Orthogonal research investigating media-induced prejudice toward immigrants has failed to establish any link. Moreover, it has been found that people interpret the news in ways that confirm pre-existing attitudes, suggesting that media induced Muslim prejudice in liberal democracies is unlikely. Here, we test the association between news exposure and anti-Muslim prejudice in a diverse national sample from one of the world's most tolerant societies, where media effects are least likely to hold (N = 16,584, New Zealand). In support of media-induced Islamophobia, results show that greater news exposure is associated with both increased anger and reduced warmth toward Muslims. Additionally, the relationship between media exposure and anti-Muslim prejudice does not reliably vary with political ideology, supporting claims that it is widespread representations of Muslims in the news, rather than partisan media biases, that drives anti-Muslim prejudice. |
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dc.format.medium |
Electronic-eCollection |
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dc.language |
eng |
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dc.publisher |
Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
PLoS ONE |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Details obtained from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/issn/1932-6203/ |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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dc.subject |
Humans |
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dc.subject |
Bayes Theorem |
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dc.subject |
Attitude |
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dc.subject |
Anger |
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dc.subject |
Prejudice |
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dc.subject |
Socioeconomic Factors |
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dc.subject |
Islam |
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dc.subject |
Adult |
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dc.subject |
Middle Aged |
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dc.subject |
New Zealand |
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dc.subject |
Female |
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dc.subject |
Male |
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dc.subject |
Emigrants and Immigrants |
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dc.title |
News exposure predicts anti-Muslim prejudice |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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dc.identifier.doi |
10.1371/journal.pone.0174606 |
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pubs.issue |
3 |
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pubs.volume |
12 |
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dc.description.version |
VoR - Version of Record |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: The authors |
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dc.identifier.pmid |
28362823 |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
622736 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Humanities |
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pubs.org-id |
Theological and Religious Studies |
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pubs.org-id |
Science |
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pubs.org-id |
Psychology |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
1932-6203 |
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pubs.number |
e0174606 |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2017-11-27 |
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pubs.dimensions-id |
28362823 |
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