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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

The emotional and mental health impact of the murder of George Floyd on the US population.

Johannes C Eichstaedt, Garrick T Sherman, Salvatore Giorgi, Steven O Roberts, Megan E Reynolds, Lyle H Ungar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 79 papers.

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79citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

79 citing papers in PubMed, 199 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Johannes C EichstaedtDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305; johannes.stanford@gmail.com sharathg@upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3220-2972
Garrick T ShermanDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0002-2146-0706
Salvatore GiorgiDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Steven O RobertsDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.ORCID 0000-0001-5337-870X
Megan E ReynoldsDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.
Lyle H UngarDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.ORCID 0000-0003-2047-1443
Sharath Chandra GuntukuDepartment of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; johannes.stanford@gmail.com sharathg@upenn.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-2929-0035
University of Pennsylvania · USStanford University · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed Black American male, was killed by a White police officer. Footage of the murder was widely shared. We examined the psychological impact of Floyd's death using two population surveys that collected data before and after his death; one from Gallup (117,568 responses from

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AdolescentAdultAngerAnxietyBlack or African AmericanDepressionEmotionsFemaleHomicideHumansMaleMental HealthMiddle AgedPoliceRacismUnited Statesmental healthpolice killingspublic healthracismsocial inequality

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PMID34544875
PMCPMC8488615
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