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SUBMITTER: Shaver JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5375159 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shaver John H JH Sibley Chris G CG Osborne Danny D Bulbulia Joseph J
PloS one 20170331 3
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 c ...[more]