Cues that Matter: How Political Ads Prime Racial Attitudes During Campaigns

By Nicholas A. Valentino, Vincent L. Hutchings, I. White. American Political Science Review, 2002

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Explicating the Black Box Through Experimentation: Studies of Authoritarianism and Threat (2002, background): “Several experiments in the realm of priming exemplify the feature-matching aspect of the interactional approach (e.g., Iyengar and Kinder 1987; Valentino et al. 2002; for a quasi-experimental demonstration, see Krosnick and Kinder 1990).”
Race as a Bundle of Sticks: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics (2016, background): “Similarly, Valentino, Hutchings, and White (2002) test whether subtle racial cues in campaign advertisements prime racial attitudes and candidate preference.”
Race, Racism, and Discrimination: Bridging Problems, Methods, and Theory in Social Psychological Research (2003, background): “…All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 324 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY QUARTERLY racially neutral but have become racially tinged in public discourse (Valentino, Hutchings, and White 2002), including approaches to fighting crime (Hurwitz and Peffley 1997; Johnson 2001; Mendelberg 1997) as well as…”
THE CENTRALITY OF RACE IN AMERICAN POLITICS (2004, background): “Others have shown that this effect is triggered by exposure to a wide variety of cues that boost the accessibility of racial schemas in memory (Valentino et al. 2002).”
On Assessing the Political Effects of Racial Prejudice (2009, background): “…to race, a stereotypic image of blacks in the absence of a direct racial reference, a light-skinned black face, or the use of racial code words such as “inner-city criminals” (Mendelberg 2001, Huber & Lapinski 2006, Hurwitz & Peffley 2005, Terkildsen 1993, Valentino et al. 2002, White 2007).”
Masculine Republicans and Feminine Democrats: Gender and Americans’ Explicit and Implicit Images of the Political Parties (2010, methodology): “…to measure cognitive accessibility; this is the standard approach developed by Fazio (1990) and employed by previous studies in political science (Valentino et al. 2002; 26 There is considerable debate on the broader role of whites’ racial attitudes in contemporary American public opinion…”
Priming Effects in Complex Information Environments: Reassessing the Impact of News Discourse on Presidential Approval (2006, background): “…“big message” approach can capture the effect of a dominant, onesided flow of information (i.e., Zaller’s “mainstream effect”), it is of questionable value in explaining priming effects stimulated by complex information environments, where conflicting ideas compete with one another in discourse.”
When Race Matters and When It Doesn't: Racial Group Differences in Response to Racial Cues (2007, methodology): “Although Mendelberg’s work concentrates on the effects of implicit racial visual cues, others have argued that some verbal cues also can be implicitly racial (Hurwitz and Pefﬂey 2005; Valentino, Hutchings, and White 2002).”
Political ideology: its structure, functions, and elective affinities. (2009, background): “…likely than liberal campaigns to play the " race card " (Mendelberg 2001), and (b) subtle (but nefarious ) racial primes that visually or verbally link African Americans to crime or welfare tend to benefit conservative candidates and hurt liberal candidates (Valentino 1999, Valentino et al. 2002).”