Whom to Help: Prosocial Behaviors and the Restoration of a Tarnished Identity

Ramos, María Cristina Fernández

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“…For example, the girl shot by a police officer in a headline could be seen as either someone suspicious or an innocent victim. To keep the police officer identity intact, respondents can also provide context through sequencing-detailing events that preceded or followed to mitigate the effect of the bad behavior on good identities (Cerulo, 1998;Ramos, 2023). Our analyses show 40% of responses to ABO headlines included sequencing and police officers have the highest likelihood of being sequenced, almost twice that of men (0.53, p < .01).…”

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Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates in the Face of Ambiguity

Collett¹,

Pierce²

2023

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We show political divisions in perceptions of police officers even before the divisive political and social events of 2016. We do so using 517 MTurk respondents’ interpretations of surprising and ambiguous headlines involving police officers (e.g., assumptions about what happened or who was involved). We constructed the headlines using affect control theory’s ABO event structure and derivations of this structure. The headlines describe ostensibly good people (A) doing bad things (B) to other good people (O) or are ambiguous on one or more of these components. We find that police headlines generate interest among readers. When interpreting events, respondents are less likely to modify or redefine police officers compared to other actors However, assumptions related to ambiguous events involving police differ by political orientation. Liberals view police more negatively than conservatives, in part because they imagine them doing worse things to slightly better people. Qualitative analyses support and shed light on the mechanisms underlying this and other partisan effects.

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Section: Police Officers Are Unchangedmentioning

confidence: 86%

Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates in the Face of Ambiguity

Collett¹,

Pierce²

2023

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Section: Police Officers Are Unchangedmentioning

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Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates in the Face of Ambiguity

Collett,

Pierce

2023

Advances in Group Processes

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Purpose: We show political divisions in perceptions of police officers even before the divisive political and social events of 2016. We do so using respondents' interpretations of surprising and ambiguous headlines involving police officers (e.g., assumptions about what happened or who was involved).Methodology/Approach: We use affect control theory's ABO event structure and derivations of this structure to construct a set of headlines that describe ostensibly good people (A) doing bad things (B) to other good people (O) or are ambiguous on one or more of these components. We present 517 MTurk respondents with a set of 7 headlines and collect quantitative and qualitative data on their reactions to, and interpretations of, these headline events.Findings: Police headlines generate interest among readers. When interpreting events, respondents are less likely to modify or redefine police officers compared to other actors However, assumptions related to ambiguous events involving police differ by political orientation. Liberals view police more negatively than conservatives, in part because they imagine them doing worse things to slightly better people. Qualitative analyses support and shed light on the mechanisms underlying this and other partisan effects.Research Limitations: The research was designed to examine interest in headline structure, not specific actors. Thus, the patterns unique to police and political differences were not an original focus. We believe these inductive results are informative, but a study expressly designed to test hypotheses regarding perceptions of events with police officers is recommended for future work.Practical and Social Implications: Understanding the political divide in perceptions of police and the potential of media coverage for exacerbating these effects is essential and related to ACTs growing interest in meaning divergence.

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“…After South America became completely separated from Africa, less than 100 million years ago, the tectonic regime changed from being extensional, with large manifestations o volcanism, to compressive, thus initiating the deformation and the build-up of the Andes (Ramos, 1989). This change in the tectonic regime gave rise to the beginning of the Andean Orogenic Cycle, with the development of a magmatic arc (Coastal Cordillera), a trans-arc extensional basin and a sedimentary platform, marking the transition to the foreland (Introcaso et al, 1992).…”

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Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and geochronological constraints on the sequence of thrusting in Principal and Frontal Cordilleras and the Precordillera of the Argentine central Andes (33 S latitude).

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Whom to Help: Prosocial Behaviors and the Restoration of a Tarnished Identity

Cited by 3 publications

References 46 publications

Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates in the Face of Ambiguity

Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates in the Face of Ambiguity

Interpreting Events Involving Police: Liberals, Conservatives, and Moderates in the Face of Ambiguity

Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and geochronological constraints on the sequence of thrusting in Principal and Frontal Cordilleras and the Precordillera of the Argentine central Andes (33 S latitude).

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