Racial Prejudice, Interracial Contact, and Personality Variables

Psychopathology, Authoritarian Attitudes, and Prejudice

“…However, the correlations obtained in these studies between indices of psychological distress and outgroup prejudice have typically been weak. Moreover, just as many studies using the same or similar measures have reported nonsignificant findings (Alterneyer, 1998;Duckitt, 1985;Glock, Wuthnow, Piliavin, & Spencer, 1975;Heaven, 1983;Knapp, 1976;McFarland, 1998;McFarland & Adelson, 1996;Middleton, 1976;Moore, Hauk, & Denne, 1984;Orpen, 1972;Prentice, 1961;Ray, 1988;Serum & Myers, 1970). Several of the studies finding nonsignificant associations have used very large samples (e.g.…”

European Review of Social Psychology

“…This expectation is supported in research on explicit attitudes towards gay people (Anderssen, 2002;Davies, 2004;Negy & Eisenman, 2005), and may also hold for implicit sexuality attitudes (Dasgupta & Rivera, 2006;Steffens, 2005). Investigations of racial attitudes find that female children (Moore, Hauck, & Denne, 1984), adolescents (Johnson & Marini, 1998), and college students (Qualls, Cox, & Schehr, 1992) demonstrate less racial prejudice than their male peers. However, a broad review of adults' racial attitudes revealed that gender differences in racial attitudes were small and inconsistent (Hughes & Tuch, 2003).…”

Outgroup Prejudice among Secondary Pupils in Northern England: Are the Predictors at the Individual, School or Neighbourhood Level?

“…Sex. That females are less prejudiced than males is a well-known trend documented in much sociological research on prejudice (Ekehammar and Sidanius, 1982;Bierly, 1985;Qualls, Cox and Schehr, 1992;Altemeyer, 1998), including some specifi cally on adolescents (Moore, Hauck and Denne, 1984;Hoover and Fishbein, 1999). It is true that this is not a universal trend: research suggests, for example, that females have more implicit prejudice than males (e.g.…”

“…Conversely, Robinson, Witenberg and Sanson (2001: 86;Bevelander and Otterbeck, 2010: 3) claim that research shows that as adolescents get older they become more tolerant of people with different beliefs. And there is also research that fi nds no age-related differences between eleven and sixteen (Moore, Hauck and Denne, 1984), and research that shows explicit prejudice declining from age ten while implicit prejudice remains stable from age six to adulthood (Baron and Banaji, 2006).…”