Key Research - Dixon, Mahoney and ***** (2002)

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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - Outline the background of this study
Seggie, investigated the effects on rater's perceptions of guilt of 3 accents. British RP, Australian and Asian. Found that accent and type of crime influenced response. British RP more guilty for white collar crime, Australian for blue collar
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - What is a White collar crime?
Typically comitted by those from upper classes (theft)(to financially motivated nonviolent crime)
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - What is a blue collar crime?
Typically committed by those from working classes (assault, violent crimes)
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - What was the aim of this study?
To see whether race or type of crime would make any difference to how brummie or standard speaking suspect was judged. To test hypthosis: "Brummie-accented suspect would receive higher rating of guilt than suspect with standard accent"
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - Outline the participants used in this study
119 white undergraduate students. All from psychology department at university college worcester. Ppts who grew up in Birmingham were excluded (used to brummie accent)
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - Outline the IV in this study
Type of crime (blue/white collar), Race (black/white), Accent (Brummie, Standard)
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - Outline the DV in this study
Rating the suspect's guilt on a 7 point scale from innocent to guilty, rating language attitudes on 3 dimensions: Superiority, Attractiveness and Dynamism
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - Outline the procedure used in this study
Ppts listened to a 2 minute exchange between a british male criminal suspect and a male policeman. The suspect was either accused from armed robbery (blue)/cheque fraud (white). The description of the suspect was used to change race.
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - Which accent was received a higher guilty rating?
Brummie accent
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - What did this study find?
Three way interaction between accent, race and crime type. Brummie, Black, Blue collar received significantly higher guilty scores than other 5 conditions.
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Dixon, Mahoney and ***** - What problems with external validity are there in this study?
Attributions of guilt are generally made in far richer evidential context than we have provided here and it is likely that strength of evidence will moderate any effects of accent on legal decision making.
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