Fear, Institutionalized Racism, and Empathy: The Underlying Dimensions of Whites' Racial Attitudes
Fear, Institutionalized Racism, and Empathy: The Underlying Dimensions of Whites' Racial Attitudes
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DOI：
10.1017/s1049096520000414
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发表时间：
2020-10-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Smith, Candis Watts
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作者：
DeSante, Christopher D.;Smith, Candis Watts
近75年来，美国舆论学者一直试图衡量白人对黑人的态度：社会科学家发明并修改了衡量我们可以称之为“种族偏见”的方法。在每一次修订中，那些认为自己捕捉到了新形式的种族敌意的学者都会遭到一些人的反对，他们认为老式的反黑人情绪已经成为过去。我们通过收集过多的态度测量来直接回答这些说法，以同时估计对种族现状的认知信念与对种族主义的情感反应之间的关系。首先，我们揭示了两个更高层次的维度支撑着白人的种族态度。其次，我们使用2016年合作国会选举研究验证了我们新电池的四项版本。
For nearly 75 years, scholars of American public opinion have sought to measure whites' attitudes toward blacks: social scientists have invented and revised ways to measure what we could refer to as "racial prejudice." With each revision, scholars who believe they have captured new forms of racial animus are met with opposition from those who believe that old-fashioned anti-black affect is a thing of the past. We directly answer these claims by collecting a surfeit of attitudinal measures to simultaneously estimate the relationship between cognitive beliefs about the racial status quo and emotional reactions to racism. First, we uncover that two higher-order dimensions undergird whites' racial attitudes. Second, we validate a four-item version of our new battery using the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study.