Skin tone, crime news, and social reality judgments: Priming the stereotype of the dark and dangerous black criminal.

By Travis L. Dixon, Keith B. Maddox. 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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The role of perceived race and gender in the evaluation of college teaching on RateMyProfessors.Com. (2010, unknown): “Previous research has demonstrated that the more phenotypically representative an individual is of her or his racial group, the more likely they will be characterized according to the negative stereotypes of that group (Dixon & Maddox, 2005; Maddox, 2004).”
Exposure to Television Portrayals of Latinos: The Implications of Aversive Racism and Social Identity Theory (2008, background): “Across a number of research domains, findings demonstrate that exposure results in an array of disadvantageous race-based outcomes for minority groups, ranging from hostility among White viewers to disparate judgments of guilt and prison sentencing by White consumers (Dixon, 2006; Dixon & Maddox, 2”
Controversial Rap Themes, Gender Portrayals and Skin Tone Distortion: A Content Analysis of Rap Music Videos (2009, background): “Negative associations with darker skin tone and Afrocentric features also occur frequently in media (Dixon & Maddox, 2005; Oliver, Jackson, Moses & Dangerfield, 2004).”
The Influence of Exposure to Depictions of Race and Crime in TV News on Viewer's Social Judgments (2009, background): “Further, consuming these messages has been shown to provoke prejudicial responses among White viewers ( Dixon, 2007 , 2008 ; Dixon & Maddox, 2005 ).”
Crime News and Racialized Beliefs: Understanding the Relationship Between Local News Viewing and Perceptions of African Americans and Crime (2008, background): “Scholars have contended that stereotypes are more likely to be used if they have either recently or frequently been activated in the past (Dixon, 2006a, 2006b; Dixon & Maddox, 2005; Fiske & Taylor, 1991; Hamilton, Stroessner, & Driscoll, 1994; Higgins, 2000).”
The independent effects of skin tone and facial features on Whites' affective reactions to Blacks (2012, unknown): “…Blacks are perceived, evaluated, and treated more negatively than lighter-skinned Blacks by both Whites and Blacks (Anderson & Cromwell, 1977; Averhart & Bigler, 1997; Dixon & Maddox, 2005; Hall, 1992, 2003, 2005; Maddox & Chase, 2004; Maddox & Gray, 2002; Wade, Romano, & Blue, 2004).”
Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (2017, background): “To isolate the role victim portrayals play, no images were shown since past work has demonstrated that skin tone can significantly impact perceiver’s emotional discomfort and the memorability of both perpetrators and victims (Dixon & Maddox, 2005).”
Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans (2008, methodology): “Prior work suggests that local news does indeed activate stereotypes regarding crime and race (Dixon, 2006a, 2008; Dixon & Maddox, 2005; Oliver & Fonash, 2002; Oliver, Jackson, Moses, & Dangerfield, 2004).”
Dose-Dependent Media Priming Effects of Stereotypic Newspaper Articles on Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes (2013, methodology): “We assumed that priming of the association between a social group (foreigners) and an attribute (crime) influences readers’ social cognition (Dixon & Maddox, 2005).”
The Influence of News Media on Stereotypic Attitudes Toward Immigrants in a Political Campaign (2012, background): “Such triggers may be subtle cues in the news, such as words with a racial connotation, such as “innercity” (Domke, 2001; Hurwitz & Peffley, 2005) or mug shots of members of racial minorities (Dixon & Maddox, 2005; Gilliam & Iyengar, 2000).”
Differentially dangerous? Phenotypic racial stereotypicality increases implicit bias among ingroup and outgroup members (2011, background): “Dixon and Maddox (2005) suggest that dark-skinned Blacks may reach a threshold in which racial stereotypes are activated and applied, while light-skinned Blacks may fall short of such levels.”
The color of punishment: African Americans, skin tone, and the criminal justice system (2018, background): “In so doing, this study moves beyond the laboratory where compelling evidence suggests that gradations of colour are linked to stereotypes about dangerousness and criminality (Blair et al. 2002, 2004; Eberhardt et al. 2004, 2006; Dixon and Maddox 2005).”