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The O.J. Simpson Criminal Verdict as a Racially Symbolic Event: A Longitudinal Analysis of Racial Attitude Change
Ist Teil von
Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2000-04, Vol.26 (4), p.507-516
Erscheinungsjahr
2000
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Using Likert-type scales, 208 white students at an eastern US university reported their racial attitudes 1 week before and 1 week and 2 months after the 1995 verdict in the O. J. Simpson murder trial. Results were used to test two models derived from the symbolic racism perspective, derived from the work of D. O. Sears (1988). According to the construal model, racial attitudes influence how individuals construe race-related events. Therefore, preverdict racial attitudes should predict perceptions of the Simpson verdict. The symbolic event model, however, suggested that the verdict itself shaped racial attitudes and that perceptions of the verdict would predict changes in racial attitudes, independent of the effect of preverdict racial attitudes. Results largely supported the symbolic event model: perceptions of the verdict predicted changes in racial attitudes, and racial attitudes became more crystallized following the verdict. The construal model, however, was only weakly supported: preverdict racial attitudes predicted the perceived fairness of the verdict, but only for those whose attitudes were well crystallized. 1 Table, 2 Figures, 18 References. Adapted from the source document.