Online Hate Does Not Stay Online – How Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Mediate the Effect of Civil Negativity and Hate in User Comments on Prosocial Behavior

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Highlights:

• Experiment on effects of negative-civil and hateful user comments against refugees.

• Shows that civil disagreement and hate in online comments reduce prosocial behavior.

• Examines the roles of implicit and explicit attitudes in this process.

• Hateful comments affect implicit attitudes, negative-civil comments affect explicit attitudes.

摘要

•Experiment on effects of negative-civil and hateful user comments against refugees.•Shows that civil disagreement and hate in online comments reduce prosocial behavior.•Examines the roles of implicit and explicit attitudes in this process.•Hateful comments affect implicit attitudes, negative-civil comments affect explicit attitudes.

论文关键词:Incivility,Hate speech,User comments,Implicit attitudes,Behavioral effects

论文评审过程:Received 6 June 2019, Revised 5 November 2019, Accepted 7 November 2019, Available online 8 November 2019, Version of Record 22 November 2019.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.106192