Media Framing and Perpetrator Identity in the U.S.: Broad Affective Arousal and Bounded Effects

• In Event: Right-wing Terrorism and Racist Hate Groups- Political Violence in the name of Religion

Brief Overview

Citizens process terrorism media through dual stages: universal emotional activation regardless of framing, then appraisal-based responses shaped by perpetrator identity and ideology. Survey experiment shows effects are domain-specific, constrained.

Author

• Chris Jackson, University of Colorado Boulder