Media are a key social agent shaping society's responses to measures implemented in the fight against terrorism. We argue that emotions elicited by media narratives on terrorist attacks are decisive to understand the link between the news media consumption and citizens' support for military intervention in the Middle East, as well as for security measures in the home country. In two studies conducted after the Brussels attacks ( = 250) and the Barcelona attacks ( = 633), we tested the explanatory role of emotions - specifically fear and hatred - in the association between media narratives and these two outcomes.
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