![]() ![]() Geoffrey Pierce, "an eccentric neuroscientist who uses his unique outlook to help the federal government solve complex cases. Neuroscientist David Eagleman serves as the technical consultant to the series.Ĭasting announcements began in October 2010, with Eric McCormack first to be cast, McCormack portrays Dr. Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman wrote the pilot, Alan Poul was attached to the project as director, with Kenneth Biller, Mike Sussman and Alan Poul serving as executive producers. On September 8, 2010, after having been in development for well over a year, TNT placed a pilot order for Perception. Originally known as 'Proof', Perception was created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman and appeared on TNT's development slate as early as 2009. The series will be broadcast in the United States on the cable channel TNT, and is produced by ABC Studios. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist who assists the FBI on some of their most complex cases. Perception is an American crime drama television series created by Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman. A Meryl Streep speech or two doesn’t hurt, either.This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors). Since film and television are slowly getting more diverse as industries, there’s hope. The good news: All this research indicates that diversity within the narrative arts of film and television really does help people to open up their conceptions of the world and humans who look and love in ways different from their own. ![]() “Tough on crime” political rhetoric doesn’t help. Media theorists call this Mean World Syndrome : Kids see 8,000 murders on TV before age 12, so they think the world is full of killing. Over the past 25 years, when the American crime rate fell precipitously from its 1991 peak, Americans that participate in Pew Research surveys have thought that it’s going up every year since the early 2000s. (As a corollary, Europeans greatly overestimate the number of Muslims in their countries). This is the power of the one-sided, or “parasocial,” relationships that viewers develop with actors and the characters they play.Īs Science of Us has noted before, research indicates that blacks are being less overrepresented as criminals on broadcast news, though Latinos are overrepresented as undocumented immigrants, and Muslims are “greatly overrepresented” as terrorists on the news. ![]() Garretson found that “frequent television viewers generally have more negative attitudes as compared with non-viewers when recurring portrayals of these groups are low,” but “television viewers have similar or higher levels of social tolerance compared with non-viewers when recurring portrayals become frequent.” For a case study, consider how Ellen DeGeneres has pushed the conversation about - and much of America’s familiarity with - gay people forward over the past two decades. ![]() And guess what: The Mosque viewers “had more positive attitudes towards Arabs” on a number of tests.Īn earlier study tracked the recurring characters in television that were black or gay from 1970 to 2000, matching that against responses about views on interracial and same-sex marriage and other tolerance questions. In it, a group of 193 white Americans watched one of two shows: Little Mosque on the Prairie, a recent Canadian sitcom about a Muslim family living in small-town Saskatchewan referred to as “Islam’s Cosby Show,” and Friends, the ’90s mega-sitcom that’s still the most popular show on TV, the second-whitest sitcom ever, and a show that featured only a handful of black people in its decade of portraying New York. This was underlined again this week with a study in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, highlighted by Tom Jacobs at Pacific Standard. Beyond that, it’s media - social and otherwise - that influence our mental construction of the world. Anthropologists estimate that humans can only maintain up to 150 relationships at a time. If the events of the past two months of have taught us anything it’s that everybody lives in a “bubble” it’s impossible, unless you’re some sort of roving photo-ethnographer, to be deeply acquainted with the many cultures that comprise the United States. Photo: Gary Null/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images ![]()
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