TY - JOUR
T1 - Schemas as average conceptions
T2 - Skin tone, television news exposure, and culpability judgments
AU - Dixon, Travis L.
N1 - Dixon Travis L. Travis L. Dixon is assistant professor of speech communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This study was partially funded by the Howard R. Marsh Center for Journalistic Performance at the University of Michigan. The University of Michigan Institutional Review Board approved the procedures used in this research. The author would like to thank the student research assistants who helped collect data for this project. 3 2006 83 1 131 149 © 2006 Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication 2006 Association for Education in Journalism & Mass Communication An experiment examined the extent to which race and skin tone of a perpetrator in a crime news story could influence subsequent culpability judgments of race unidentified suspects. There were no differences in culpability judgments between light news viewers exposed to a white, light-skinned, medium-skinned, or dark-skinned black perpetrator. However, heavy television news viewers exposed to a medium-skinned black perpetrator were more likely than heavy news viewers exposed to a white suspect to find an unambiguously guilty suspect culpable. Heavy news viewers exposed to either light-, medium-, or dark-skinned black suspects were more likely than heavy news viewers exposed to white suspects to find an ambiguously guilty suspect culpable.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - An experiment examined the extent to which race and skin tone of a perpetrator in a crime news story could influence subsequent culpability judgments of race unidentified suspects. There were no differences in culpability judgments between light news viewers exposed to a white, light-skinned, medium-skinned, or dark-skinned black perpetrator. However, heavy television news viewers exposed to a medium-skinned black perpetrator were more likely than heavy news viewers exposed to a white suspect to find an unambiguously guilty suspect culpable. Heavy news viewers exposed to either light-, medium-, or dark-skinned black suspects were more likely than heavy news viewers exposed to white suspects to find an ambiguously guilty suspect culpable.
AB - An experiment examined the extent to which race and skin tone of a perpetrator in a crime news story could influence subsequent culpability judgments of race unidentified suspects. There were no differences in culpability judgments between light news viewers exposed to a white, light-skinned, medium-skinned, or dark-skinned black perpetrator. However, heavy television news viewers exposed to a medium-skinned black perpetrator were more likely than heavy news viewers exposed to a white suspect to find an unambiguously guilty suspect culpable. Heavy news viewers exposed to either light-, medium-, or dark-skinned black suspects were more likely than heavy news viewers exposed to white suspects to find an ambiguously guilty suspect culpable.
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U2 - 10.1177/107769900608300109
DO - 10.1177/107769900608300109
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745313869
SN - 1077-6990
VL - 83
SP - 131
EP - 149
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
IS - 1
ER -