High-Status Exemplars and the Misperception of the Asian-White Wealth Gap
High-Status Exemplars and the Misperception of the Asian-White Wealth Gap
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地位高的榜样和对亚裔白人贫富差距的误解
DOI：
10.1177/1948550619867940
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
J. Richeson
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作者：
E. E. Kuo;Michael W. Kraus;J. Richeson
在这项研究中，我们检验了一个中心假设，即认为亚裔美国人是高地位的“模范少数族裔”的看法导致高估了亚裔美国人和白人美国人之间财富平等的程度。我们通过三项研究验证了这一假设，这三项研究操纵了地位较高或地位较低的亚裔美国人样本的显着性，然后征求对亚裔白人财富平等的估计。对结果的荟萃分析显示，参与者大大高估了亚裔白人的财富平等，而让地位较低的亚裔美国人与地位较高的亚裔美国人榜样突出会降低这一趋势。这些数据表明，地位较高的亚裔美国人榜样引发了对亚裔白人财富平等的更大高估，掩盖了现有的相对于美国白人的贫富差距，并显著淡化了经济不平等，这种不平等给不太典型的种族背景的亚裔美国人带来了负担。这些发现呼应了社会学家和政治学家最近的呼吁，即对亚裔美国人社区的多样性和经济不平等进行更细致的理解。
In this research, we test the central hypothesis that perceptions of Asian Americans as a high-status “model minority” lead to overestimates of the extent of wealth equality between Asian and White Americans. We test this hypothesis across three studies that manipulate the salience of high- or low-status Asian American exemplars before soliciting estimates of Asian-White wealth equality. A meta-analysis of the results revealed that participants significantly overestimated Asian-White wealth equality and that making low- versus high-status Asian American exemplars salient decreased this tendency. These data suggest that activation of high-status Asian American exemplars elicits greater overestimates of Asian-White wealth equality, obscuring existing wealth disparities relative to White Americans and significantly downplaying the economic inequality that burdens a subset of Asian Americans from less prototypical ethnic backgrounds. The findings echo recent calls by sociologists and political scientists for a more nuanced understanding of the diversity and economic inequality among Asian American communities.