Impacto actitudinal y canalización cognitiva de estereotipos sobre la inmigración a través de las noticias

Juan José  Igartua Perosanz

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2013-992

Authors

Juan José Igartua Perosanz University of Salamanca http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9865-2714

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2013-992

Keywords:

Framing effect, group cue, involvement, immigration, experimental research, mediational analysis

Abstract

Based on research on framing effects and on the news treatment of immigration, this article analyses the processes of reception and impact of news about crime. Method. We conducted two experimental studies in which participants were exposed to a news story and subsequently asked to answer a questionnaire with self-report scales. Two independent variables were manipulated in the news story: the reference to the protagonists’ nationality and the place where the event took place (to influence readers’ involvement with the topic). Results. The study indicates that when the involvement with the news story was low, the presence of information about the protagonists’ nationality exerted an indirect effect through attitudinal impact. However, when involvement was high, the indirect effect was explained by the activation of trains of thought which influenced the formation and/or reinforcement of negative beliefs about immigration. Conclusions. The results are consistent with a dual model of news framing effects and empirically reinforce the recommendation of not revealing the nationality of the protagonists of a criminal act in a news story.

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Author Biography

Juan José Igartua Perosanz, University of Salamanca

Juan José Igartua Perosanz (Bilbao, 1965) holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of the Basque Country (1996). He is a Professor in the area of Audiovisual Communication and Advertising of the University of Salamanca (Department of Sociology and Communication), where he teaches in the B.A. programme in Audiovisual Communication and directs the Observatory of Audiovisual Contents (OCA), which is a research group recognised by its host university and the government of Castile and León (GR319).

His field of specialisation is media psychology. His research projects have focused on the following topics: media processes and effects, news framing, media entertainment theory, narrative persuasion, health communication and media and immigration.

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