@article{ref1,
title=""Terrorist" or "mentally ill": motivated biases rooted in partisanship shape attributions about violent actors",
journal="Social psychological and personality science",
year="2019",
author="Noor, Masi and Kteily, Nour and Siem, Birte and Mazziotta, Agostino",
volume="10",
number="4",
pages="485-493",
abstract="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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1948-5506",
doi="10.1177/1948550618764808",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550618764808"
}