The Victim Paradox: How Narratives of Outgroup Suffering Impact Emotional Response, Prejudice, and Policy Views

• In Event: Empathy and Politics

Brief Overview

Do media portrayals of minoritized group members suffering mistreatment promote empathy or pity, stigma or resilience, policy support or apathy? We investigate these questions using two population-based experiments around the issue of LGBTQ rights.

Authors

• Seth K. Goldman, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

• Patrick J. Egan, New York University

• Renée Richardson Gosline, Massachusetts Institute of Technology