The Egalitarian Optimist and the Confrontation of Prejudice.
The Egalitarian Optimist and the Confrontation of Prejudice.
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平等乐观主义者与偏见的对抗。
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10.1080/17439760902992449
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发表时间：
2009-09-01
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Geers AL
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作者：
Wellman JA;Czopp AM;Geers AL
对抗偏见往往需要一个人超越强大的个人内部和内部力量。仅有平等主义标准往往不足以克服这些力量。由于性格乐观的个体积极追求有价值的目标，即使受到障碍的威胁，我们认为高度乐观和突出的平等主义目标的组合预测了偏见的对抗。在目前的研究中，乐观和偏见程度高和低的人被随机分配到听种族主义笑话然后争论，或者听同样的笑话但没有争论。我们发现，低偏见的乐观主义者，他们的长期平等主义价值观通过听到论点而变得突出，他们很可能会面临后来的偏见行为。自我报告数据与这一行为发现密切相关。这些发现支持对对抗采取自我监管的方法，并提出了对抗偏见的新途径。
Standing up against prejudice often requires one to surmount powerful inter- and intra-individual forces. Egalitarian standards alone are often insufficient to surmount these forces. As individuals high in dispositional optimism vigorously pursue valued goals, even when threatened with obstacles, we propose that the combination of high optimism and salient egalitarian goals predicts the confrontation of prejudice. In the present study, individuals high and low in both optimism and prejudice were randomly assigned to hear a racist joke followed by an argument, or to hear the same joke but without the argument. We found that low-prejudice optimists who had their chronic egalitarian values made salient by hearing the argument were highly likely to confront a later act of prejudice. Self-report data closely mirrored this behavioral finding. These findings support a self-regulatory approach to confrontation and suggest new avenues for combating prejudice.