The Subjective Group Dynamics of Inter- and Intragroup Criminality in the News : The Role of Prior T... The Role of Prior Television News Viewing as a Moderator

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Beteiligte: Ortiz, Michelle, Harwood, Jake
In: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 90, 2013, 3, S. 540-558
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SAGE Publications
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Umfang: 540-558
ISSN: 1077-6990
2161-430X
DOI: 10.1177/1077699013493786
veröffentlicht in: Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Sprache: Englisch
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Kollektion: SAGE Publications (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> Participants read a crime news story featuring two perpetrators. Building on subjective group dynamics, we predicted that a perpetrator would be evaluated differently depending on the partner’s ethnicity and participants’ prior media use. Results show that heavy news consumers were more likely to (a) give a harsher sentence to a white perpetrator acting with a white (vs. Latino) partner, and (b) develop more negative attitudes toward Latinos when members of that group were portrayed in intergroup criminal partnerships. The implications of intergroup portrayals for perceptions of the ingroup, as well as the outgroup, and the moderating effects of news viewing on such effects, are discussed. </jats:p>