Empathy, Threat, and Responses to Refugee Related News

• In Event: Advances in Physiology and Politics: Physiological Responses to Political Communication

Brief Overview

This study examines the extent to which the impact of refugee skin tone in news images is conditioned by threat sensitivity empathetic capacity toward in-groups and out-groups.g

Authors

• Johanna Dunaway, Texas A & M University-College Station

• Bert Nico Bakker, University of Amsterdam

• Madelyn Phillips, Texas A&M

• Vin Arceneaux, Temple University