@article{ref1,
title="On the role of police shootings, recognition of systemic racism, and empathy on White Americans' support for police reform",
journal="Personality and social psychology bulletin",
year="2024",
author="Bart-Plange, Diane-Jo and Trawalter, Sophie",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="The police kill Black Americans at disproportionate rates. Despite this, White Americans remain mixed on support for policing-related policy reform. We examined whether bearing witness to police violence leads to support for policy reforms. Across three studies (N = 943), White participants either viewed a news video about an unarmed Black man killed at the hands of police or in a car accident due to a collision with another driver. Participants lower but not higher in symbolic racism reported more empathy after viewing a police shooting (vs. car accident) news video (Studies 1-3). Empathy predicted policing-related policy reform support (Studies 1-3) and mediated the relationship between condition and policy reform support (Studies 1 and 3), among those lower in symbolic racism (Studies 1-2). <br><br>RESULTS suggest that empathy for Black victims of police violence predicts policy support but only among those who recognize that such violence is systemic in nature.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0146-1672",
doi="10.1177/01461672241237286",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672241237286"
}