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Contact: Craig Chamberlain
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Caption: Communication professor Travis Dixon found in a pair of studies that the more people watched either local or network news, the more likely they were to draw on negative stereotypes about blacks.
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau.
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