@article{ref1,
title="He does not look like video games made him do it: racial stereotypes and school shootings",
journal="Psychology of popular media",
year="2020",
author="Markey, Patrick M. and Ivory, James D. and Slotter, Erica B. and Oliver, Mary Beth and Maglalang, Omar",
volume="9",
number="4",
pages="493-498",
abstract="Despite a lack of research linking school shootings to video games, video games are frequently associated with school shootings carried out by White perpetrators. Because there is a stereotypical association between racial minorities and violent crime, it is possible that people often look toward video games as a cause for school shootings committed by White perpetrators who do not fit this stereotype. Consistent with this notion, Study 1 (n = 169) found that participants who read a mock news story about a school shooting were more likely to blame video games when the shooter was White than when the shooter was Black. Study 2 examined 204,796 news stories of 204 mass shootings committed in the United States and found that, when a shooting occurred at a school, video games were 8.35 times more likely to be discussed when the shooter was White than when the shooter was Black. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2689-6567",
doi="10.1037/ppm0000255",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000255"
}