The Salience of Rap Stereotypes When Judging Music Fans
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Relative to other genres, rap lyricists and fans are disproportionately associated with criminality and misogynistic behaviors. Fischoff (1999) found that mock jurors perceived a hypothetical male as more capable of committing murder (as well as more sexually aggressive and dishonest) when he was presented as authoring a set of rap lyrics shown to participants. Our recently completed pilot study – a replication-extension of Fischoff (1999) – in which we amended the stimuli to read that the target was a fan of rap lyrics as opposed to the author of the rap lyrics – confirmed that negative judgments attached to an author of rap lyrics extend to a fan of rap lyrics (Putter, et al., 2023). However, because of the study’s design, it is not possible to separate the impact of the musical genre from the lyrical content nor does it afford consideration of the nature of the criminal accusation. Therefore, the present study used a 3 (crime accusation) x 5 (genre label) experimental design to further examine rap stereotypes in an adjudicative context. Data collection is underway. Findings have implications concerning the pervasiveness of rap-related stereotypes and the salience of inflammatory rap lyrics on character judgements in an adjudicative context.
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