GRAF, Sylvie, Pavla LINHARTOVÁ and Sabine SCZESNY. The effects of news report valence and linguistic labels on prejudice against social minorities. MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY. ABINGDON: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020, vol. 23, No 2, p. 215-243. ISSN 1521-3269. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1584571.
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Original name The effects of news report valence and linguistic labels on prejudice against social minorities
Authors GRAF, Sylvie (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Pavla LINHARTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Sabine SCZESNY (756 Switzerland).
Edition MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY, ABINGDON, ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2020, 1521-3269.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50101 Psychology
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 3.824
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14110/20:00115052
Organization unit Faculty of Medicine
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1584571
UT WoS 000466018900001
Keywords in English social minorities; prejudice
Tags 14110222, rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
Combating prejudice against social minorities is a challenging task in current multicultural societies. Mass media can decisively shape prejudice, because it often represents the main source of information about social minorities. In 3 studies in the Czech Republic (N = 445) and Switzerland (N = 362; N = 220), we investigated how prejudice against negatively and positively perceived minorities (the Roma in Study 1, Kosovo Albanians in Study 2, Italians in Study 3) is influenced by a single exposure to a print news report, by manipulating the valence of reports about minority members (positive vs. negative vs. mixed) and linguistic forms for minorities' ethnicity (nouns vs. adjectives). Positive and negative reports shaped prejudice in the respective directions; the effect of mixed reports mostly did not differ from positive reports. Labeling ethnicity with nouns (e.g., a male Roma) resulted in more prejudice than adjectives (e.g., a Roma man), independent of report valence. Report valence influenced the affective part of prejudice (i.e., feelings toward a minority), whereas language consistently shaped the behavioral part of prejudice (i.e., preferred social distance from a minority).
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