Seeing a video of police abuse increases perceptions of frequency of police's use of excessive force.

By artappraiser on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 1:21am |

1/n As I long suspected, data from a recently published study shows that reading about and/or watching a vid of excessive nonlethal or lethal force against blk suspects (Timothy Harris, Phil. Castille) increases perceptions of the frequency of the police's use of excessive force. pic.twitter.com/wYTVVm50D9
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) September 16, 2020

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2/n Also as suspected, the average effects across all experimental conditions were significantly stronger for white liberals than conservatives pic.twitter.com/APYSLsHLtU
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) September 16, 2020

3/n Link to paper (which was co-authored by a friend/member of my dissertation committee) https://t.co/kovgqUTap9
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) September 16, 2020

cc @PeterMoskos
— Zach Goldberg (@ZachG932) September 16, 2020

Social media creates an availability heuristic
— Peaceful Protester Tony (@tonybalogna) September 16, 2020

by artappraiser on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 1:27am

Seeing a video of police abuse increases perceptions of frequency of police's use of excessive force.

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