Persuasion and Resistance: Race and the Death Penalty in America

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When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions (2010, background): “The increase in support for the death penalty observed in Peffley and Hurwitz (2007) when whites are told that the death penalty is applied in a discriminatory faction against blacks could also be interpreted as a backfire effect.”
The Numbers Don’t Speak for Themselves: Racial Disparities and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Justice System (2018, background): “When White participants were informed about racial disparities in executions, 52% strongly favored the death penalty compared with 36% in a baseline condition (Peffley & Hurwitz, 2007).”
The Pragmatic American: Attributions of Crime and the Hydraulic Relation Hypothesis (2010, background): “Miller, Smith, and Uleman (1981) argue that this assumption is manifest in the way in which researchers operationalize attributional styles.”