The threat of racial progress and the self-protective nature of perceiving anti-White bias

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations - Tập 20 Số 6 - Trang 801-812 - 2017
Clara L. Wilkins1, Alexander Aaron Hirsch1, Cheryl R. Kaiser2, Michael P. Inkles1
1Wesleyan University USA
2University of Washington USA

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In two studies we tested whether racial progress is threatening to Whites and whether perceiving anti-White bias assuages that threat. Study 1 revealed that Whites primed with racial progress exhibited evidence of threat (lower implicit self-worth relative to baseline). Study 2 replicated the threat effect from Study 1 and examined how perceiving discrimination may buffer Whites’ self-worth. After White participants primed with high racial progress attributed a negative event to their race, their implicit self-worth rebounded. Participants primed to perceive low racial progress did not experience fluctuations in implicit self-worth. Furthermore, among those primed with high racial progress, greater racial discounting (attributing rejection to race rather than to the self) was associated with greater self-worth protection. These studies suggest that changes to the racial status quo are threatening to Whites and that perceiving greater racial bias is a way to manage that threat.

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Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Tập 20 Số 6

801-812

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