A Study of Racial Attitudes of College Students

Professed attitudes and actual behavior.

“…Sims and Patrick 1 * administered Hinckley's "Attitude Toward the Negro" scale to northern and southern university students and reported that the latter were significantly more antagonistic to Negroes. These results are in harmony with those reported by Garrison and Burch, 10 Hinckley, 11 Iikert, 11 and others and seem as well to coincide with our common sense notions. Reinhardt, 1 * on the other hand, using Bogardus' "Social Distance" method, found that students in North Dakota were more prejudiced toward Negroes than were students in West Virginia.…”

Ethnic identification and preference: A review.

“…The prejudiced individuals, as measured by the Summated Differences Scale (Westie, 1953), showed greater GSR gain and finger-pulse change to a slide of a black person than did the nonprejudiced subjects. Vidulich and Krevanik (1966) employed the California E and F Scales (Garrison, 1933) to identify prejudiced subjects and recorded higher GSRs for prejudiced subjects to photographs of blacks and whites in social interaction. Study of sex indicated that males obtained higher GSRs than females.…”

The organization of attitudes toward the Negro as a function of education.

“…on Prejudice There have been many studies (3, 4, LESSING A. KAHN 17,18,32,33,42) on the effect of education on prejudice, and most of them have demonstrated that education tends to lessen prejudice. By and large this question has been investigated by means of attitude scales or questionnaires administered to groups of subjects with varying amounts of education, and by analysis of the results of single-issue opinion polls on the basis of the educational background of the sample used.…”