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A Los Angeles Study Surveyed 506 English-Speaking Respondents

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A Los Angeles study surveyed 506 English-speaking respondents. Researchers found that:


A) people who paid the most attention to crime news programs were less likely to be affected by the over-representation of black criminals and thus hold the most extreme racist stereotypes of black people as criminals.
B) people who paid the most attention to crime news were most likely to give harsher culpability ratings to the study's presentation of hypothetical black suspects than to similar presentations of hypothetical white suspects.
C) people who paid the most attention to crime news were twice the national average to hold racist stereotypes of black people as criminals than people who paid little attention to crime news.
D) people who paid the most attention to news stories about crimes perpetrated by African Americans were disproportionately likely to hold racist stereotypes of black people as criminals, especially if the victims were white.

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