Word: bias
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Read "Polarized News? The Media's Moderate Bias...
Race, Sex and Bias...
...CCSR voted in favor of proposals calling on the company to develop renewable energy alternatives and adopt sexual orientation anti-bias policies, but opposed requests for additional reporting on executive compensation policies...
Next, researchers tried to figure out whether this nonverbal bias was being communicated to people watching the show. Researchers created two sets of short, silent clips, one pro-white and the other pro-black. In the pro-white set, white characters were treated positively and black characters were treated negatively; in the pro-black clips, the reverse was true. A separate group of students was asked to view either the pro-white or pro-black TV clips. Afterward, the students completed a questionnaire that was presented as a different study, but actually served as a measure of their racial bias...
...clips was created to favor one group or the other, there was only one right answer to the question. The students had a 50-50 chance of responding correctly - and that's exactly how well they did, no better than chance. In other words, the patterns of bias expressed in the characters' nonverbal behavior were not obvious to the viewers. "The effect [television has] on viewers might be something less than conscious," says Weisbuch...