The current research was to investigate what psychological factors predict Muslims’ negative stereotypes of the West, and the underlying mechanism by which the negative stereotypes can translate into Muslims’ aggressive tendencies towards the West. A correlational survey among a sample of Indonesian Muslims (N = 360) demonstrated that the more participants negatively stereotyped the West, the more they thought that Muslims should aggress the latter group. We also found as expected that Muslims’ negative stereotypes of the West were positively predicted by the perceived conflict between Islam and the West, and this perceived intergroup conflict in turn mediated the role of Islamic fundamentalism in predicting the negative stereotypes. These findings in sum highlight the role of contextual and individual factors in predicting Muslims’ negative stereotypes of the West, as well as the impact of these stereotypes on Muslims’ aggressive tendencies towards the West. Theoretical implications and research limitations of these empirical findings are discussed.

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解释穆斯林对西方的挑衅倾向：负面刻板印象，愤怒，感知冲突和伊斯兰原教旨主义的作用

当前的研究是调查哪些心理因素预测了穆斯林对西方的消极刻板印象，以及消极刻板印象可以转化为穆斯林对西方的积极倾向的潜在机制。对印度尼西亚穆斯林样本（N = 360）进行的一项相关调查表明，参与者对西方的负面刻板印象越多，他们就越认为穆斯林应该侵略后者。我们还如预期的那样发现，穆斯林对西方的消极刻板印象是由伊斯兰和西方之间的感知冲突积极预测的，而这种感知到的群体间冲突又反过来介导了伊斯兰原教旨主义在预测消极刻板印象中的作用。总而言之，这些发现突出了语境和个人因素在预测穆斯林对西方的负面刻板印象中的作用，以及这些刻板印象对穆斯林对西方的侵略倾向的影响。讨论了这些经验发现的理论意义和研究局限性。