Role Playing and Group Experience to Facilitate Attitude and Value Changes among Black and White Police Officers

Teahan, John E.

doi:10.1111/j.1540-4560.1975.tb00738.x

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“…social recognition) low priority. Similar findings were reported by Teahan (1975; and for a review, see Lefkowitz, 1975;Burbeck and Furnham, 1985).…”

Section: Application Of Rokeach Theory Of Human Valuessupporting

confidence: 85%

Individual value preferences among American police officers

Zhao

Lovrich

1998

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &Amp; Management

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This paper examines the value orientation of American police officers in a major municipal police department. Relying primarily on survey data, the aim of this paper is to utilize Milton Rokeach’s theory of human values to investigate the following three issues: What are the value orientations of police officers today? Have such value orientations among police officers changed over time? Is there a consensus on values among officers? The primary findings of this paper strongly suggest that value orientations among American police officers have remained relatively stable over recent decades. Moreover, there is a high degree of consensus on value priorities among police officers across years of service, level of education and gender.

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“…social recognition) low priority. Similar findings were reported by Teahan (1975; and for a review, see Lefkowitz, 1975;Burbeck and Furnham, 1985).…”

Section: Application Of Rokeach Theory Of Human Valuessupporting

confidence: 85%

Individual value preferences among American police officers

Zhao

Lovrich

1998

Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &Amp; Management

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“…As the officers progressed through their police training, their racial attitudes became progressively more hostile toward blacks. In a separate study designed to examine the effects of role-playing experiences on the attenuation of racial hostility, Teahan (1975b) found that role-playing increased racial hostility toward blacks among white officers, whereas it decreased racial hostility toward whites among black police officers. In essence, socialization for the hierarchy-enhancing role of police officer led members of dominant groups to hold more hostile attitudes toward subordinates, and led members of subordinate groups to develop more obsequious attitudes toward dominants.…”

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Social Dominance Theory: Its Agenda and Method

Sidanius

Pratto

Laar

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Political Psychology

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“…A recent study by the senior investigator (Teahan, 1973) lends further evidence in support of a relationship between increased racial pride and rejection of perceived white sentiments. In a study of black and white police officers at the beginning of their police training.…”

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Some Effects of Films of Successful Blacks On Racial Self-Concept

Teahan

Podany

1974

Int J Soc Psychiatry

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THIS research stemmed from the observation that the absence of good models within the immediate environment of lower socio-economic black youth influences his whole range of values and self-concept. (Grambs, 1965; Lott and Lott, 1963). Previous research by the senior investigator (Teahan and Hug, 1969), dealing with the impact of films of black professionals, who had themselves come from impoverished backgrounds, revealed that black lower socio-economic students could receive inspiration from these &dquo;success stories.&dquo; Of particular interest was one finding which emerged from the study, namely, that an improvement in the self-concept or in the self-concept or in the racial pride of blacks will result, at least initially, in what was interpreted by the investigators to be greater hostility toward whites. This was felt to be a result of an externalisation of hostility formerly internalised and turned toward the self. PROCEDURE Film DescriptionTwelve men (six black and six white males) were the subjects of twelve films which ranged in length from 15 to 25 minutes. These same films were used in a previous study by the investigator. Blacks had been chosen from those occupational areas where they had either been previously excluded because of prejudice, or where they had been active but unpublicised. Whites were included in order to obscure the purpose behind the films. The following professions were represented in the films : Blacks-architect, pharmacologist, political scientists, retailing executive, sculptor and computer systems engineer. Whites-accountant, clinical psychologist, chemist, Federal judge, newspaper reporter, and T.V. executive. Sub jectsBlack students from an all male Catholic high school in grades 9 through 11 1 participated in the study. Two study period groups* of mixed grades composed of 53 students were designated as the experimentals and they saw films on a weekly basis. Two other study groups of 56 students with similar grade distribution served as their controls. Socio-economic level was determined by rating fathers' occupations on Warner-Meeker and Eels scale. A score of one through five was designated as higher socio-economic level. Scores of six or seven (unskilled or minimally skilled labour) were designated as lower socio-economic. Instruments 1. Photograph Technique : This test, a modified version of one used by Secord (1959) in studying prejudice among whites, was used by the senior author in a previous study of black attitudes. It measured the differential reaction of students to full face photographs of anonymous black and white males. A booklet with five This report is based on part of a larger research project dealing with the effects of audio-visual techniques on the self-concepts of blacks. It was supported by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. No. OEG-0-8-0080040-3712 (010). The investigators are extremely grateful to the Chicago Catholic Board of Education and to Miss Julia Bell, Coordinator of research. Presented at the annual convention of the Midwestern Psycho...

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Role Playing and Group Experience to Facilitate Attitude and Value Changes among Black and White Police Officers

Cited by 33 publications

References 4 publications

Individual value preferences among American police officers

Individual value preferences among American police officers

Social Dominance Theory: Its Agenda and Method

Some Effects of Films of Successful Blacks On Racial Self-Concept

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