Objectives

To investigate how race shapes public perceptions of a fatal officer-involved shooting of an armed male citizen depicted in a scenario without racial identifiers, intraracial, and interracial.

Methods

We distributed an online survey whereby respondents indicated justification, measured by four questions about the fatal officer-involved shooting, after being randomly assigned to three conditions that differed by the racial composition of the officer and armed male citizen. The control condition omitted racial identifiers, and two conditions depicted an interracial and intraracial deadly encounter between a White officer and a White or Black citizen.

Results

White and non-White respondents similarly perceived the intraracial shooting, but White respondents perceived the control condition and the interracial shooting as more justified than non-White respondents.

Conclusions

An identical news article of a fatal officer-involved shooting can be perceived differently when altering the race of the officer and armed male citizen.

中文翻译：

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是黑白的吗？测试公众对报纸上涉及致命军官枪击事件的小插曲的反应的种族框架效应

目标

调查种族如何影响公众对警察射杀一名武装男性公民的致命事件的看法，该事件是在没有种族标识符、种族间和跨种族的情况下描绘的。

方法

我们分发了一项在线调查，受访者被随机分配到因警官和武装男性公民的种族构成而不同的三个条件后，通过四个有关涉及致命警官的枪击事件的问题来衡量其合理性。控制条件省略了种族标识符，两个条件描述了白人警官与白人或黑人公民之间的跨种族和种族内致命遭遇。

结果

白人和非白人受访者对种族内枪击事件的看法相似，但白人受访者认为控制条件和种族间枪击比非白人受访者更合理。

结论

当改变军官和武装男性公民的种族时，一篇关于涉及军官致命枪击事件的相同新闻报道可能会有不同的感受。