Effects of linguistic abstractness in the mass media: How newspaper articles shape readers' attitudes toward migrants

Journal of Media Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 99-104

  Geschke, Daniel ^a   Sassenberg, Kai ^b   Ruhrmann, Georg ^a   Sommer, Denise ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

linguistic abstractness; migrants; news; prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650322812     PISSN: 18641105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105/a000014     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. M. Barreto, N. Ellemers The perils of political correctness: Men's and women's responses to old-fashioned and modern sexist views Social Psychology Quarterly 68 2005 75 88
2. A. Carnaghi, A. Maass, S. Gresta, M. Bianchi, M. Cadinu, L. Arcuri Nomina sunt omina: On the inductive potential of nouns and adjectives in person perception Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 94 2008 839 859
3. T.L. Dixon Crime news and racialized beliefs: Understanding the relationship between local news viewing and perceptions of African Americans and crime Journal of Communication 58 2008 106 125
4. T.L. Dixon, C.L. Azocar Priming crime and activating Blackness: Understanding the psychological impact of the overrepresentation of Blacks as lawbreakers on television news Journal of Communication 57 2007 229 253
5. T.L. Dixon, D. Linz Race and the misrepresentation of victimization on local television news Communication Research 27 2000 547 573
6. W. Donsbach, B. Klett Subjective objectivity. How journalists in four countries define a key term of their profession Gazette 51 1993 53 83
7. J.F. Dovidio, S.L. Gaertner Prejudice, discrimination, and racism 1986 Academic Press San Diego, CA
8. B.C. Dunton, R.H. Fazio An individual difference measure of motivation to control prejudiced reactions Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 23 1997 316 326
9. F. Esser, B. Scheufele, H.-B. Brosius Fremdenfeindlichkeit als Medienthema und Medienwirkung. Deutschland im internationalen Scheinwerferlicht [Xenophobia as media topic and the impact of the media. Spot lights on Germany] 2002 Westdeutscher Verlag Wiesbaden, Germany
10. J. Galtung, M.H. Ruge The structure of foreign news. The presentation of the Congo, Cuba and Cyprus crisis in four Norwegian newspapers Journal of Peace Research 1 1965 64 91
11. S.E. Hampson, L.R. Goldberg, O.P. John Category breadth and social desirability - values for 573 personality terms European Journal of Personality 1 1987 241 258
12. A. Maass, G. Corvino, L. Arcuri Linguistic intergroup bias and the mass media Revue de Psychologie Sociale 1 1994 31 43
13. A. Maass, D. Salvi, L. Arcuri, G.R. Semin Language use in intergroup contexts: The linguistic intergroup bias Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 57 1989 981 993
14. A.V. Persson, D.R. Musher-Eizenman College students' attitudes toward Blacks and Arabs following a terrorist attack as a function of varying levels of media exposure Journal of Applied Social Psychology 35 2005 1879 1893
15. T.F. Pettigrew, R.W. Meertens Subtle and blatant prejudice in Western Europe European Journal of Social Psychology 25 1995 57 75
16. J.C. Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices. Set II 1990 Oxford Psychology Press Oxford, UK
17. Ruhrmann, G., & Sommer, D. (2008). Linguistic bias in press coverage about Germans and immigrants. Unpublished Manuscript, University of Jena (Germany).
18. Ruhrmann, G., Sommer, D., & Sassenberg, K. (2007, May). Intergroup bias in mass media: From semantic to pragmatic dimensions - A research agenda. Paper presented at the 57th Annual conference of the International Communication Association, San Francisco, CA, USA.
19. G.R. Semin, K. Fiedler The Linguistic Category Model, its bases, applications and range European Review of Social Psychology 2 1991 1 30
20. D.H.J. Wigboldus, K. Douglas Language, stereotypes, and intergroup relations K. Fiedler Social communication 2007 Psychology Press New York 79 106
21. D.H.J. Wigboldus, G.R. Semin, R. Spears How do we communicate stereotypes? Linguistic bases and inferential consequences Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 78 2000 5 18