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Exploration of the impact of messages about genes and race on lay attitudes
Author(s) -
Condit CM,
Parrott RL,
Bates BR,
Bevan J,
Achter PJ
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
clinical genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.543
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1399-0004
pISSN - 0009-9163
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2004.00327.x
Subject(s) - race (biology) , racism , disease , dimension (graph theory) , presentation (obstetrics) , psychology , genetics , medicine , biology , sociology , gender studies , pathology , radiology , mathematics , pure mathematics
The effect of messages about genetics on lay audiences was assessed through an experimental study that exposed participants (n = 96) to a Public Service Announcement about race, genes, and heart disease. Participants who received a message that specified either ‘Whites’ or ‘Blacks’ as the subject of the message demonstrated elevated levels of racism, genetic basis for racism, and one dimension of genetic discrimination as compared to those receiving a version of the message with no race specification or in a no‐message control condition. The presentation of such messages to the public is not recommended until additional research clarifies this finding and perhaps describes mitigating vocabularies or approaches.