The effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator

The present study tested how intergroup threat (high versus low) and social identity as a Muslim (salient versus non-salient) affected belief in conspiracy theories. Data among Indonesian Muslim students (N = 139) from this study demonstrated that intergroup threat and social identity salience inter...

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Autores principales:	Ali Mashuri, Esti Zaduqisti
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Lenguaje:	EN ES
Publicado:	Universidad de San Buenaventura 2015
Materias:	belief in conspiracy theories collective angst intergroup threat social identity salience terrorism in Indonesia Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bc2e7544230c427b86b83488fe6351492021-11-25T02:22:11ZThe effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator10.21500/20112084.6422011-20842011-7922https://doaj.org/article/bc2e7544230c427b86b83488fe6351492015-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistas.usb.edu.co/index.php/IJPR/article/view/642https://doaj.org/toc/2011-2084https://doaj.org/toc/2011-7922The present study tested how intergroup threat (high versus low) and social identity as a Muslim (salient versus non-salient) affected belief in conspiracy theories. Data among Indonesian Muslim students (N = 139) from this study demonstrated that intergroup threat and social identity salience interacted to influence belief in conspiracy theories. High intergroup threat triggered greater belief in conspiracy theories than low intergroup threat, more prominently in the condition in which participants’ Muslim identity was made salient. Collective angst also proved to mediate the effect of intergroup threat on the belief. However, in line with the prediction, evidence of this mediation effect of collective angst was only on the salient social identity condition. Discussions on these research findings build on both theoretical and practical implications.Ali MashuriEsti ZaduqistiUniversidad de San Buenaventuraarticlebelief in conspiracy theoriescollective angstintergroup threatsocial identity salienceterrorism in IndonesiaPsychologyBF1-990ENESInternational Journal of Psychological Research, Vol 8, Iss 1 (2015)
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spellingShingle	belief in conspiracy theories collective angst intergroup threat social identity salience terrorism in Indonesia Psychology BF1-990 Ali Mashuri Esti Zaduqisti The effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator
description	The present study tested how intergroup threat (high versus low) and social identity as a Muslim (salient versus non-salient) affected belief in conspiracy theories. Data among Indonesian Muslim students (N = 139) from this study demonstrated that intergroup threat and social identity salience interacted to influence belief in conspiracy theories. High intergroup threat triggered greater belief in conspiracy theories than low intergroup threat, more prominently in the condition in which participants’ Muslim identity was made salient. Collective angst also proved to mediate the effect of intergroup threat on the belief. However, in line with the prediction, evidence of this mediation effect of collective angst was only on the salient social identity condition. Discussions on these research findings build on both theoretical and practical implications.
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author	Ali Mashuri Esti Zaduqisti
author_facet	Ali Mashuri Esti Zaduqisti
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title	The effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator
title_short	The effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator
title_full	The effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator
title_fullStr	The effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator
title_full_unstemmed	The effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator
title_sort	effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator
publisher	Universidad de San Buenaventura
publishDate	2015
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The effect of intergroup threat and social identity salience on the belief in conspiracy theories over terrorism in indonesia: collective angst as a mediator

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