Muslim Victims and the Rights Penalty: How Religious Identity Impacts Opinion on Human Rights

• In Event: American Interests and Human Rights

Brief Overview

This study presents an experiment examining how US respondents formulate their opinions of a foreign community facing human rights abuses: the Uyghurs. The impact of priming for religious identity, as well as different framing devices are explored.

Author

• Connor Kopchick, University of Maryland-College Park