TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - "Terrorist" or "mentally ill": motivated biases rooted in partisanship shape attributions about violent actors
JO  - Social psychological and personality science
A1  - Noor, Masi
A1  - Kteily, Nour
A1  - Siem, Birte
A1  - Mazziotta, Agostino
SP  - 485
EP  - 493
VL  - 10
IS  - 4
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1948-5506
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550618764808
ID  - ref1
ER  -