Exposure to Racial Out-Groups and Implicit Race Bias in the United States
Exposure to Racial Out-Groups and Implicit Race Bias in the United States
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DOI：
10.1177/1948550614567357
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发表时间：
2015-07-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Olson, Kristina R.
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作者：
Rae, James R.;Newheiser, Anna-Kaisa;Olson, Kristina R.
工业化世界的种族正变得更加多元化。多个学科的研究表明，接触外族群体可能与更积极和更消极的群体间态度有关。鉴于美国各州经常处于与多样性相关的公共政策辩论的中心，我们研究了接触外群体与美国白人和黑人之间州级隐性和显性种族偏见之间的关系。我们发现，美国各州黑人居民比例较高，与白人和黑人受访者中较强的隐性和显性群体内偏见有关。即使控制了（a）州级人口控制变量（例如收入中位数），（b）非黑人少数族裔比例，以及（c）历史上南部邦联成员资格，州级偏见也是通过黑人居民的比例来预测的。我们的结果表明了调查为什么多样性并不总是能像人们希望的那样对群体间关系产生积极影响的重要性。
The industrialized world is becoming more ethnically diverse. Research in several disciplines has suggested that exposure to racial out-groups may be associated with more positive and more negative intergroup attitudes. Given that U.S. states are often at the center of debate regarding diversity-related public policy, we examined how exposure to out-groups is associated with state-level implicit and explicit race bias among White and Black Americans. We found that larger proportions of Black residents across U.S. states were associated with stronger implicit and explicit in-group bias among both White and Black respondents. State-level bias was predicted by proportions of Black residents even when controlling for (a) state-level demographic control variables (e.g., median income), (b) proportions of non-Black minorities, and (c) historical membership in the Confederacy. Our results convey the importance of investigating why diversity may not always have the positive impact on intergroup relations that one might hope it to have.