Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-05849-8
Ph.D.
Communication Studies
University of Kansas
2015
Guided by intergroup contact theory, social identity theory, and politeness theory, this experimental study examined the effects of the target's Muslim religious identity salience (high and low) and message politeness strategies (direct and indirect) on non-Muslim American participants' (N = 413) perceptions of quality of contact, intergroup anxiety, and their effects on attitudes toward the Muslim group as a whole. In addition, the present study examined the indirect effects of religious identity salience and message politeness strategies through the participants' perceptions of intergroup anxiety on the individual and group level contact outcomes.
Religion; Communication; Islamic Studies; Social structure
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Intergroup anxiety;Intergroup contact;Mediated contact;Politeness;Religious identity