Psychological Reactions to Crime News Portrayals of Black Criminals: Understanding the Moderating Roles of Prior News Viewing and Stereotype Endorsement

By Travis L. Dixon. 2006

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Crime News and Racialized Beliefs: Understanding the Relationship Between Local News Viewing and Perceptions of African Americans and Crime (2008, methodology): “Concern about crime Prior research has found that overall crime concern appears to be connected to racialized crime news exposure (Dixon, 2006a; Gilliam & Iyengar, 2000; Valentino, 1999).”
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, 20”
The Perceived Realism of African American Portrayals on Television (2008, background): “Performing a content analysis of 139 television series, Donagher et al. (1975) found that Black males were portrayed as a helper, a giver, and as cooperative and Black females were portrayed as virtuous.”
Priming Crime and Activating Blackness: Understanding the Psychological Impact of the Overrepresentation of Blacks as Lawbreakers on Television News (2007, background): “The effect might require both priming and chronic activation ( Dixon, 2006a, 2006b ).”
Media's influence on immigration attitudes: An intergroup threat theory approach (2016, background): “For example, Dixon (2006) found that heavy news consumers (vs. light) exposed to a crime news segment featuring a majority of Black suspects (or race-unidentified) perceived the world to be a more dangerous place compared to those viewing a majority of White suspects.”
Network News and Racial Beliefs: Exploring the Connection Between National Television News Exposure and Stereotypical Perceptions of African Americans (2008, methodology): “In addition, cultivation and theories of social cognition may also offer a partial explanation for the findings (Dixon, 2006a; Domke, Shah, & Wackman, 1998; Price & Tewksbury, 1997).”
The Influence of Race in Police–Civilian Interactions: A Content Analysis of Videotaped Interactions Taken During Cincinnati Police Traffic Stops (2008, background): “Prior research has shown that Blacks are a stigmatized group who are stereotypically associated with excessive crime and violence and are more likely to be targeted by law enforcement (Delgado, 1994; Dixon, 2006; Eberhardt et al., 2004).”
Television Viewing, Racial Attitudes, and Policy Preferences: Exploring the Role of Social Identity and Intergroup Emotions in Influencing Support for Affirmative Action (2010, background): “For example, exposure to Black crime suspects rather than White suspects in news stories primes viewers to evaluate ambiguous targets in vignettes that followed as more dangerous, guiltier of committing a crime, and deserving of harsher punishment (Dixon, 2006).”
Dose-Dependent Media Priming Effects of Stereotypic Newspaper Articles on Implicit and Explicit Stereotypes (2013, background): “Previous research shows that seeing a number of stories that contain crime, but with no direct reference to ethnic identity, can still prime ethnic stereotypes (Dixon, 2006).”