AWAKENING ACTIVISM: THE POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS

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dc.contributor.advisorReed, William Len_US
dc.contributor.authorBraun, Josephen_US
dc.contributor.departmentGovernment and Politicsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-07T05:40:44Z
dc.date.available2018-09-07T05:40:44Z
dc.date.issued2018en_US
dc.description.abstractIndividuals are an integral part of international human rights. While central to our leading theories of human rights change and to the efforts of human rights organizations in the real world, empirical scholarship has not systematically investigated how individuals choose to become advocates. Without the mobilization of individuals, human rights institutions and campaigns are deprived of the energy and material that fuel their success. In this dissertation, I closely evaluate the reasons why individuals choose to become engaged in human rights campaigns, what drives them to advocacy, and what this tells us about the relationship between political psychology and international human rights. In Chapter 1, I consider how incidental emotions influence individuals’ support for child hunger relief and refugee assistance, finding that negative emotions like disgust tend to amplify pre-existing views. In Chapter 2, I evaluate the effects of the negativity bias and loss-aversion bias on support for child hunger relief. I find that the combination of negative imagery and gains-focused messaging had a significant and positive effect on individuals’ support for both personal and government action to help feed and house the hungry. In Chapter 3, I discuss the important effects that political ideology had on the relationships I observed in Chapters 1 and 2. I illustrate how those on the political left and right responded in systematically different ways in each of the experiments, and note how these differences reveal the critical importance of targeted messaging with an emphasis on ideology. Finally, I conclude with a discussion of these dissertation findings as theoretically important and practically useful, with an emphasis on a focused and practically-oriented future research agenda.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2JQ0SZ6T
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/21156
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPolitical scienceen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledInternational relationsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAdvocacyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledExperimentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHuman Rightsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInternational Organizationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPublic Opinionen_US
dc.titleAWAKENING ACTIVISM: THE POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTSen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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