2023
White Americans' blame attributions and empathy towards Black victims of police violence: How pejorative stereotypes ‘engulf the field’
Johnson J, Lecci L, Dovidio J. White Americans' blame attributions and empathy towards Black victims of police violence: How pejorative stereotypes ‘engulf the field’. British Journal Of Social Psychology 2023, 63: 936-955. PMID: 38131304, DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12712.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPolice violenceBlack victimsBlame attributionsCitizenship educationCriminal stereotypesWhite policemenMotivated reasoning processesRacial stereotypingViolencePejorative stereotypesBlack AmericansVictimsWhite observersBlack menVictim stereotypicalityBlack womenGreater blameStereotypesPractical implicationsBlack stereotypesStereotypical victimMTurk participantsCrimeEmpathy deficitsEmpathy
2019
Black Intragroup Empathic Responding to Police Interracial Violence: Effects of Victim Stereotypicality and Blacks’ Racial Identification
Johnson J, Lecci L, Dovidio J. Black Intragroup Empathic Responding to Police Interracial Violence: Effects of Victim Stereotypicality and Blacks’ Racial Identification. Social Psychological And Personality Science 2019, 11: 579-587. DOI: 10.1177/1948550619859316.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchVictim stereotypicalityRacial identificationPolice violenceInterracial violenceBlack victimsAmazon Mechanical TurkEmpathic respondingPsychological processesIndividual differencesPsychological dynamicsBlack observersUnarmed Black menBlack participantsLess empathyBlack male victimsStudy 1Study 2MTurk participantsMechanical TurkEmpathyRacial identityPresent researchPublic outrageMale victimsStereotypicality