Knobloch-Westerwick and LaMarre to present their research on music to ATM

On February 15, Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick and Heather LaMarre will present their research on music. The title of their talk is "Dark Black Rap and Bright White Rock: Effects of Radical Music on Support of Ethnic Groups." The following is the abstract from their paper:

In an experimental design, participants (n = 148) listened to music during an ostensible waiting period and were then asked to allocate funding to projects about different ethnic groups. Two radical music conditions (gangsta rap and white power rock) and one mainstream music condition (pop music) as control were used. Results indicate that white power music had the strongest effect on listeners wherein funding for White-Americans increased significantly while funding for African-American and Arab-American groups decreased. Funding allocation did not differ between the gangsta rap and pop music conditions. The results suggest that radical rap has become so common that it hardly affects listeners anymore.