Muslims’ emotions toward Americans predict support for Hezbollah and Al Qaeda for threat-specific reasons
| Autor: | Nour Kteily, Miriam Matthews, Jim Sidanius, Felicia Pratto, Shana Levin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Value (ethics)
021110 strategic defence & security studies Pride Social Psychology Contempt media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 050109 social psychology Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Islam 02 engineering and technology Anger Ingroups and outgroups Disgust Perception 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Motivation and Emotion. 40:162-177 |
| ISSN: | 1573-6644 0146-7239 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11031-015-9510-1 |
| Popis: | Using a random sample of 243 Muslims in Lebanon and Syria, we examined whether support for Hezbollah or for Al Qaeda is predicted by functionally-relevant emotional responses to specific threats perceived to be posed by Americans. In line with the sociofunctional approach, perceived resource domination threat from Americans elicited anger, and perceived value contamination threat elicited disgust/contempt toward Americans. Importantly, these intergroup emotions in turn differentially predicted support for Hezbollah and Al Qaeda through desires for the organizations to accomplish different goals to address the threat perceptions. Specifically, anger toward Americans predicted support for Hezbollah through desires for the organization to restore threatened symbolic resources by bringing pride and respect to Arabs. In contrast, disgust/contempt toward Americans predicted support for Al Qaeda through desires for the organization to protect threatened ingroup values by de-contaminating Islam from Western cultural influence. Theoretical explanations and implications for addressing and mitigating hostilities between the groups are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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