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Examining the Hostile Media Effect as an Intergroup Phenomenon: The Role of Ingroup Identification and Status

Author(s) -

Hartmann Tilo,

Tanis Martin

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

journal of communication

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.752

H-Index - 131

eISSN - 1460-2466

pISSN - 0021-9916

DOI - 10.1111/jcom.12031

Subject(s) - ingroups and outgroups , identification (biology) , social psychology , psychology , outgroup , context (archaeology) , in group favoritism , newspaper , phenomenon , social group , social identity theory , epistemology , political science , botany , biology , paleontology , philosophy , law

This approach conceptualizes the hostile media effect (HME) as an intergroup phenomenon. Two empirical studies, one quasi‐experimental and one experimental, examine the HME in the context of the abortion debate. Both studies show that ingroup identification and group status qualify the HME. Pro‐choice and pro‐life group members perceived an identical newspaper article as biased against their own viewpoint only if they considered their ingroup to have a lower status in society than the outgroup. In addition, only group members with a stronger ingroup identification showed a HME, particularly because of self‐investment components of ingroup identification. Taken together, the findings confirm the important influence of ingroup status and ingroup identification on the HME .

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