University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA.
Health Educ Behav. 2020 Dec;47(6):870-879. doi: 10.1177/1090198120957949. Epub 2020 Sep 10.
On March 8, 2020, there was a 650% increase in Twitter retweets using the term "Chinese virus" and related terms. On March 9, there was an 800% increase in the use of these terms in conservative news media articles. Using data from non-Asian respondents of the Project Implicit "Asian Implicit Association Test" from 2007-2020 ( = 339,063), we sought to ascertain if this change in media tone increased bias against Asian Americans. Local polynomial regression and interrupted time-series analyses revealed that Implicit Americanness Bias-or the subconscious belief that European American individuals are more "American" than Asian American individuals-declined steadily from 2007 through early 2020 but reversed trend and began to increase on March 8, following the increase in stigmatizing language in conservative media outlets. The trend reversal in bias was more pronounced among conservative individuals. This research provides evidence that the use of stigmatizing language increased subconscious beliefs that Asian Americans are "perpetual foreigners." Given research that perpetual foreigner bias can beget discriminatory behavior and that experiencing discrimination is associated with adverse mental and physical health outcomes, this research sounds an alarm about the effects of stigmatizing media on the health and welfare of Asian Americans.
2020 年 3 月 8 日，推特上使用“中国病毒”和相关术语的转推量增加了 650%。3 月 9 日，保守派新闻媒体文章中使用这些术语的频率增加了 800%。我们利用 2007 年至 2020 年“内隐联想测验项目”中 339063 名非亚裔受访者的数据，试图确定媒体语气的这种变化是否增加了对亚裔美国人的偏见。局部多项式回归和中断时间序列分析显示，内隐美利坚主义偏见——即潜意识中认为欧洲裔美国人比亚裔美国人更“美国”——从 2007 年到 2020 年初稳步下降，但在保守派媒体增加污名化语言后，这一趋势在 3 月 8 日发生逆转。在保守派人士中，偏见的趋势逆转更为明显。这项研究提供了证据，表明污名化语言的使用增加了潜意识中认为亚裔美国人是“永久外国人”的信念。鉴于研究表明，永久外国人偏见可能导致歧视行为，而经历歧视与身心健康不良后果有关，因此这项研究对污名化媒体对亚裔美国人的健康和福利的影响发出了警报。
