TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying With a Stereotype
T2 - The Divergent Effects of Exposure to Homosexual Television Characters
AU - McLaughlin, Bryan
AU - Rodriguez, Nathian S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2017/7/29
Y1 - 2017/7/29
N2 - Scholars examining homosexual television characters have typically come to one of two conclusions: either exposure to homosexual characters can lead to increased acceptance, or homosexual characters serve to reaffirm negative stereotypes. We seek to bridge these two bodies of research by introducing the concept of stereotyped identification—the idea that cognitively and emotionally identifying with fictional characters can increase acceptance of minorities, while reinforcing implicit stereotypes about how they look, act, and talk. Results from our national survey (N = 972) offer support for this hypothesis.
AB - Scholars examining homosexual television characters have typically come to one of two conclusions: either exposure to homosexual characters can lead to increased acceptance, or homosexual characters serve to reaffirm negative stereotypes. We seek to bridge these two bodies of research by introducing the concept of stereotyped identification—the idea that cognitively and emotionally identifying with fictional characters can increase acceptance of minorities, while reinforcing implicit stereotypes about how they look, act, and talk. Results from our national survey (N = 972) offer support for this hypothesis.
KW - Attitudes toward homosexuality
KW - homosexual television characters
KW - identification
KW - media representations
KW - mediated intergroup contact
KW - stereotyped identification
KW - stereotyping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84995393677&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00918369.2016.1242335
DO - 10.1080/00918369.2016.1242335
M3 - Article
C2 - 27680867
AN - SCOPUS:84995393677
SN - 0091-8369
VL - 64
SP - 1196
EP - 1213
JO - Journal of Homosexuality
JF - Journal of Homosexuality
IS - 9
ER -