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Death reminders increase agreement with extremist views but not violent extremist action in Indonesian Muslims
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posted on 2016-07-01, 00:00 authored by M Iqbal, K S O Brien, A M Bliuc, Matteo VerganiMatteo VerganiUsing terror management theory, we examined whether mortality salience (MS; death-related cognitions) increased support for religious and political extremism and/or violent extremism in young Indonesian Muslims. Muslim and non-Muslim Indonesian students studying in Australia were randomized to an MS or control condition. Following completion of a distracter task, participants were asked to rate their agreement/disagreement with another Indonesian Muslim student’s (bogus) statements toward extremist views and violent extremist actions. After controlling for alienation, Muslim students in the MS condition reported significantly higher levels of support for extremist views than did non-Muslims. There was no significant effect of MS on violent extremist action in either Muslims or non-Muslims. The results suggest that reminders of death (MS) may lead young Muslims to be more supportive of politically and religiously extreme views, but not violent action. Our findings lend partial support to previous research in Iranian Muslim students; however, further research is needed to establish factors that can result in increased support for violent extremism.
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Journal of cross-cultural psychologyVolume
47Issue
6Pagination
891 - 897Publisher
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Thousand Oaks, Calif.Publisher DOI
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0022-0221eISSN
1552-5422Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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