“Your post has been deleted”: Effects of ideological beliefs, threat, and social norm on support of hate speech prohibition

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Amanda Salvador de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/26734
• topic: Psicologia social -- Social psychology; Discurso de ódio -- Hate speech; Online hate speech; LGBT; Immigrant; Portugal; Discurso de ódio online; Imigrantes

The present study examined the effect of authoritarianism on the support of online Hate Speech Prohibition. An online study (n=293) investigating if right-wing authoritarianism (I.V) will positively predict support of the prohibition of hate speech (D.V). The study adds to the existing research by examining whether the normativity and perceived threat of hate speech moderates the relation between right-wing authoritarianism and hate speech prohibition. We compare censored hate speech vs non-censored hate speech (within-subject). Threat manipulation were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions: immigrant threat, LGBT threat, and control condition (between-subject). Our results show that authoritarians, regardless of normativity, do not prevent hate speech more than non-authoritarians do and that perceived threat increases the willingness to permit and the willingness to report hate speech in authoritarians, independently from normativity of hate speech.