Western anti-Muslim prejudice: Value conflict or discrimination of persons too?
(2018) Political Psychology — Vol. 39, n° 2, p. 281-301 (2018)
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- Do Western anti-Muslim attitudes reflect Islamophobia, as a general ethnoreligious prejudice that does not distinguish between persons and ideas, values, or behavior, or are they limited to issues perceived to be in conflict with Western liberal values? In two experiments, we measured discrimination as decreased willingness to help a Muslim versus non-Muslim target to undertake an action that was either neural or in conflict with Western liberal values. Participants did not show general, but conditional, anti-Muslim discrimination: the two targets were treated equally when the cause was neutral, but there was less willingness to help the Muslim target when the cause was conflicting (protesting against the headscarf ban and against gay rights). However, participants demonstrated subtle discrimination by showing less willingness to help the protesting Muslim compared to the protesting non-Muslim target. Individual differences moderated these effects, with multiculturalism predicting conditional outgroup prosociality, ethnocentrism predicting global outgroup discrimination, and pro-atheism attitudes predicting both conditional outgroup prosociality and unprejudiced rejection of value conflicting behavior.
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Van der Noll, J., Saroglou, V., Latour, D., & Dolezal, N. (2018). Western anti-Muslim prejudice: Value conflict or discrimination of persons too? Political Psychology, 39(2), 281-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12416 (Original work published 2018)