Informant reports confirm participants’ fear-based beliefs about Muslims

Evidence

The results of Study 2 provide mixed support for the convergent and discriminant validity of the IS. The I-CG offered the greatest level of support for validity. Specifically, the beliefs of participants who associated Muslims with fear were confirmed by informants. Participants and the informants were also able to distinguish this Table 4 Multitrait-Multimethod Matrix (Study 2) Self-report 1. — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 105

Categorization

• DEFINE: I-CG = Islamophobia Cognitive scale; ‘IS’ appears to be the Islamophobia Scale under development.