Implicit (and explicit) racial attitudes barely changed during Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and early presidency

Racial bias is associated with ingroup death rate for Blacks and Whites: Insights from Project Implicit

“…Critically, however, previous research indicates that community-level racial bias is highly stable over time (Leitner et al, 2016;Schmidt and Nosek, 2010), suggesting that community-level bias estimates aggregated across 2003e2013 likely captured community-level bias that predated 2003. Based on this temporal stability, it is plausible that racial bias predating 2003 contributed to ingroup death rate in the 2003e2013 window.…”

The “Obama Effect”? Priming Contemporary Racial Milestones Increases Implicit Racial bias among Whites

“…Researchers reported a notable drop in implicit anti-Black bias during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign (Plant et al, 2009) and imme-diately following his election (Bernstein et al, 2010). Yet, analysis of much larger and more representative datasets collected by Project Implicit showed only a very modest decrease in implicit anti-Black bias from the time Obama announced his candidacy through his inauguration (Schmidt & Nosek, 2010) and little change in implicit anti-Black bias during his presidency (Schmidt & Axt, this issue). Nonetheless, experimental work conducted by Columb and Plant (2011) showed that subliminally priming participants with the name "Obama" reduced implicit antiBlack bias.…”

The Roles of In-Group Exemplars and Ethnicracial Identification in Self-Stereotyping

“…The election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States of America has spurred discussion and research on his positive effect on interethnic relations, often referred to as the "Obama effect" (e.g., Columb & Plant, 2011, this issue;Knowles, Lowery, & Schaumberg, 2010;Plant et al, 2009;Reed, 2010;Schmidt & Axt, this issue;Schmidt & Nosek, 2010;Sharpley-Whiting, 2009). There has been relatively less empirical work on the positive influence that Obama and others like him might have on fellow African Americans (for exceptions, see Aronson, Jannone, McGlone, & Johnson-Campbell, 2009;Fuller-Rowell, Burrow, & Ong, 2011;Marx, Ko, & Friedman, 2009).…”