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Travis L. Dixon, PhD

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Dixon, T.L. (2008). Who is the victim here?: The psychological effects of overrepresenting White victims and Black perpetrators on television news. Journalism: Theory, Practice, & Criticism, 9, 582-605.

Dixon, T.L., Schell, T., Giles, H., & Drogos, K. (2008). The influence of race in police-civilian interactions: A content analysis of videotaped interactions taken during routine Cincinnati Police traffic stops. Journal of Communication, 58, 530-549.

Dixon, T.L. (2008). Network news and racial beliefs: Exploring the connection between national television news exposure and stereotypical perceptions of African Americans. Journal of Communication, 58, 321-337.

Johnson, K.A. & Dixon, T.L. (2008). Change and the illusion of change: Evolving portrayals of crime news and African Americans in a major market. Howard Journal of Communications, 19, 125-143.

Dixon, T. L. (2008). Crime news and racialized beliefs: Understanding the relationship between local news viewing and perceptions of African Americans and crime. Journal of Communication, 58, 106-125.

Melican, D. B., & Dixon, T. L. (2008). News on the net: Credibility, selective exposure, and racial prejudice. Communication Research, 35, 151-168.

Covert, J., & Dixon, T. L. (2008). A changing view: Representation and effects of women of color in mainstream women’s magazines. Communication Research, 35, 232-256.

Dixon, T.L. (2007). Black criminals and White officers: The effects of racially misrepresenting law breakers and law defenders on television news. Media Psychology, 10, 270-291.

Dixon, T. L. & Azocar, C. (2007). Priming crime and activating Blackness: Understanding the psychological impact of the overrepresentation of African Americans as lawbreakers on television news. Journal of Communication, 57, 229-253.

Dixon, T. L. (2006). Psychological reactions to crime news portrayals of Black criminals: Understanding the moderating roles of prior news viewing and stereotype endorsement. Communication Monographs, 73, 162-187.

Dixon, T. L. (2006). Schemas as average conceptions: Skin tone, television news exposure, and culpability judgments. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 83, 131-149.

Dixon, T.L. & Azocar, C. (2006). The representation of juvenile offenders by race on Los Angeles area television news. Howard Journal of Communications, 17, 143-161.

Dixon, T.L. & Maddox, K.B. (2005). Skin Tone, crime news, and social reality judgments: Priming the stereotype of the dark and dangerous Black criminal. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 1555-1570.

Casas, M., & Dixon, T. L. (2003). The impact of stereotypical and counter-stereotypical news on viewer perceptions of Blacks and Latinos: An exploratory study. In A. Valdivia (Ed.), A Companion to Media Studies (pp. 480-494). London: Blackwell Publishing.

Dixon, T. L. (2003). Racialized portrayals of reporters and criminals on local television news. In R. A. Lind (Ed.), Race/Gender/Media: Considering diversity across audiences, content, and producers (pp. 132-139). Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.

Dixon, T. L., Azocar, C. & Casas, M. (2003). The portrayal of race and crime on network news. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 4, 495-520.

Dixon, T.L. & Brooks, T. (2002). Rap music and rap audiences: Psychological effects and political resistance. African American Research Perspectives, 8(2), 106-116.

Dixon, T. L. & Linz, D. (2002). Television news, prejudicial pretrial publicity, and the depiction of race. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 46, 112-136.

Dixon, T. L. (2001). Social cognition and racial stereotyping in television: Consequences for transculturalism. In M. Asante, V. Milhouse & P. Nwosu (Eds.), Transcultural realities, (215-224). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Dixon, T.L. (2000). A social cognitive approach to studying racial stereotyping in the mass media. African American Research Perspectives, 6(1), 60-68.

Dixon, T. L. & Linz, D. (2000a). Overrepresentation and underrepresentation of African Americans and Latinos as lawbreakers on television news. Journal of Communication, 50(2), 131-154.

Dixon, T. L., & Linz, D. (2000b). Race and the misrepresentation of victimization on local television news. Communication Research, 27, 547-573.

Dixon, T. L. & Linz, D. (1997). Obscenity law and sexually explicit rap music: Understanding the effects of sex, attitudes, and beliefs. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 25, 217-241.