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Abrams, Jessica R., Karen J. McGaughey and Hannah Haghighat. 2018. Attitudes toward Muslims: a test of the parasocial contact hypothesis and contact theory. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 47 (4) : 276–292.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

The parasocial contact hypothesis was depended on to evolve a range of hypotheses about the link between news consumption as a subsidiary form of intergroup contact and attitudes toward Muslim Americans. Piety level, political identity, gender, and ethnicity were also linked to stances toward Muslim Americans.