Effects of stereotypical television portrayals of African-Americans on person perception

Publication information:

Effects of stereotypical television portrayals of African-Americans on person perception. (1997). Social Psychology Quarterly, 60(3), 266-278,.

Abstract

An experiment was conducted to test the hypothesis that stereotypical TV portrayals of African-Americans increase the likelihood that whites will make negative social perception judgments of an African-American target person.