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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-05849-8
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Discipline of degree
Communication Studies
Body granting the degree
University of Kansas
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2015
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religion; Communication; Islamic Studies; Social structure
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Intergroup anxiety;Intergroup contact;Mediated contact;Politeness;Religious identity