Cognitive and Motivational Bases of Bias: Implications of Aversive Racism for Attitudes toward Hispanics

Dovidio, John F.; Gaertner, Samuel L.; Anastasio, Phyllis A.; Sanitioso, Rasyid Bo

doi:10.4135/9781483325996.n5

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“…This allowed participants to satisfy not only their motivation to restore a threatened self-esteem, but also to avoid appearing prejudiced which is another important motivation to consider when dealing with student participants (Livingston & Sinclair, in press; Plant & Devine, 1998). Past studies have indeed shown that individuals may attempt to avoid appearing prejudiced when evaluating a target belonging to a stereotyped minority group as it is, among others, in contradiction with their egalitarian values (see Dovidio, Gaertner, Anastasio & Sanitioso, 1992). …”

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Maintaining a Positive Self-Image by Stereotyping Others: Self-Threat and the Stereotype Content Model

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Sanitioso

2009

Social Cognition

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The present study examines how target group’s stereotype content (on warmth and competence dimensions) influences subsequent target evaluation following self-threat related to one’s competence. Participants first received threatening or non-threatening feedback on their competence. They evaluated then a job candidate who was stereotyped either as competent and cold (Asian) or as warm and incompetent (working mother). As predicted, threatened participants derogated only the Asian target on her perceived warmth and her suitability for a job, but did not derogate the working mother. Moreover, perceived warmth mediated the observed differences in the evaluation of the targets’ job suitability. These results extend research on self-threat and prejudice by including Stereotype Content Model in this link.

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Maintaining a Positive Self-Image by Stereotyping Others: Self-Threat and the Stereotype Content Model

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Sanitioso

2009

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“…For members of the in‐group—the majority group—“less is known about the out‐group” then about fellow members of the in‐group (Davison and Burke : 231). Consequently, in‐group members are likely to view out‐group members “as more similar to and more interchangeable with one another” (Dovidio et al : 170)—in short, as stereotypes. Those stereotypes then inform the in‐group's understanding of the nature of out‐group members (Davison and Burke ).…”

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The Role of Nominee Gender and Race at U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

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Ringhand³

2018

Law Soc Rev

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We investigate an unexplored aspect of the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation process: whether questioning senators treat female and minority nominees differently from male and white nominees. Applying out‐group theory, we argue that senators will ask female and minority nominees more questions about their “judicial philosophies” in an effort to determine their competence to serve on the Court. This out‐group bias is likely to be exacerbated for nominees not sharing the senator's political party. Our results do not support racial differences, but they do provide strong evidence that female nominees receive more judicial philosophy‐related questions from male senators. This effect is enhanced when the female nominee does not share the partisan affiliation of the questioning senator. Together, these findings indicate that female nominees undergo a substantively different confirmation process than male nominees. We further find that this effect may be most intense with nominees like Justice Sotomayor, whose identities align with more than one out‐group.

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“…Consequently, the present study's application to Latinos extends the parameters of the paradigm. The framework contends that aversive racism is a consequence of the sociohistorical relationship between Whites and Blacks in the United States (Dovidio, Gaertner, Anastasio, & Sanitioso, 1992). Thus, the differing patterns of discrimination between Whites and Blacks compared with Whites and Latinos suggest that comparable outcomes may not necessarily apply.…”

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Exposure to Television Portrayals of Latinos: The Implications of Aversive Racism and Social Identity Theory

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Behm-Morawitz

Kopacz

2008

Human Communication Research

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Although research suggests that manifestations of blatant racism are on the decline, findings additionally demonstrate that subtle racism remains prevalent when contexts provide sufficient ambiguity for the expressions to go unnoticed. Notably, studies examining these outcomes have typically been confined to intergroup contexts, despite the fact that mediated contact may yield parallel responses. The present investigation examines this relationship by applying aversive racism and social identity theory assumptions to assess the influence of exposure to television depictions of Latinos, on White viewers’ judgments. Results cautiously reveal that racial identification and media ambiguity affect both viewers’ evaluations of target racial/ethnic out‐group members as well as in‐group esteem.

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Cognitive and Motivational Bases of Bias: Implications of Aversive Racism for Attitudes toward Hispanics

Cited by 34 publications

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Maintaining a Positive Self-Image by Stereotyping Others: Self-Threat and the Stereotype Content Model

Maintaining a Positive Self-Image by Stereotyping Others: Self-Threat and the Stereotype Content Model

The Role of Nominee Gender and Race at U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

Exposure to Television Portrayals of Latinos: The Implications of Aversive Racism and Social Identity Theory

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