Failure to warn: How student race affects warnings of potential academic difficulty

Communicating about others: Motivations and consequences of race-based impressions

“…In addition, Crosby and Monin (2007) investigated how IMS/EMS and target race affected the quality of advice a student receives from advisors. Participants were asked to give advice to a Black or White student who was planning to enroll in a challenging semester of course work.…”

“…There was no difference in advice given to Black or White students for participants low in IMS, and EMS had no effect. Crosby and Monin (2007) discuss this "failure to warn" Black students about the potential difficulty of their course plan as a consequence of high IMS participants' concern about appearing prejudiced.…”

Advising and Progress in the Community College STEM Transfer Pathway

“…Volume 33 (2)dissuade her or him from taking a heavy course load; that is, White advisors were less likely to warn Black students (Crosby & Monin, 2007) that they may be at risk of academic overcommitment. We encourage researchers to undertake studies that increase the understanding of the nuances of ways advising can help facilitate student progress and how cross-race, cross-class, and other factors can complicate advising interactions.…”

Unprejudiced and self-focused: When intergroup contact is experienced as being about the ingroup rather than the outgroup

“…Thus, the reactions assessed following the initial intergroup contact experience to index generalization included expectations of being liked by a subsequently encountered outgroup member as well as liking communicated to this outgroup member. Because lower-prejudice individuals tend to be concerned about how they are viewed by outgroup members and are overly tentative in their disclosures and positive overtures to outgroup members (Crosby & Monin, 2007;Vorauer, 2005Vorauer, , 2006, these outcomes are of particular relevance to their behavior during and experience of intergroup interaction.…”

“…However, there are many challenges, such as dealing with concerns about being evaluated in light of negative stereotypes, that individuals face during exchanges with outgroup members regardless of their intergroup attitudes. Moreover, sometimes it is those individuals who are the least biased and most concerned with fair treatment of outgroup members who exhibit the lowest levels of intimacy-building behavior, excessively restrict the disclosure of important information, and have the worst communication problems during everyday intergroup interaction (Crosby & Monin, 2007;Norton, Sommers, Apfelbaum, Pura, & Ariely, 2006;Shelton, Richeson, Salvatore, & Trawalter, 2005;Vorauer, 2005), perhaps because concerns about evaluation disrupt their behavior (Vorauer & Turpie, 2004). In short, many problems experienced in the context of mundane, everyday intergroup interaction do not arise from negative attitudes.…”