Abstract
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 have made the whole world unsafe. Through Terror
Management Theory (TMT), scholars have tried to make sense of this phenomenon
in the context of media and how they are affecting or giving rise to prejudiced attitudes,
especially against Pakistanis. In this paper three studies have been conducted to test
the effects of news on terrorism on prejudice again outgroups. According to TMT,
terrorism news may increase prejudice again outgroups when it confronts viewers with
their own mortality. In Study 1, we manipulated news on terrorism and included the
murder of filmmaker Van Gogh a real-world factor in the design and tested whether
death-related thoughts mediated or moderatded the effecsts of terrorism news on
prejudice . Study 2 extended these findings by testing whether the effects on deathrelated thoughts and prejudice are mitigatd by self-esteem. Finally, Study 3 tested the
effects of terrorism news on prejudice against outgroups among Pakistani and nonPakistani respondents.
Khalid Sultan, Muhammad Wasim Akbar. (2011) Effects of Terrorism News on Prejudiced Attitude: Analyzing Some Case Studies, Journal of Independent Studies and Research-Management, Social Sciences and Economics, Volume-09, Issue-2.
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