The threat of racial progress and the self-protective nature of perceiving anti-White bias
The threat of racial progress and the self-protective nature of perceiving anti-White bias
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种族进步的威胁和反白人偏见的自我保护本质
DOI：
10.1177/1368430216631030
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Michael P. Inkles
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作者：
Clara L. Wilkins;A. A. Hirsch;Cheryl R. Kaiser;Michael P. Inkles
在两项研究中，我们测试了种族进步是否对白人构成威胁，以及感知到反白人偏见是否会减轻这种威胁。研究1显示，被种族进步刺激的白人表现出威胁的迹象（相对于基线较低的内隐自我价值）。研究2重复了研究1的威胁效应，并检验了感知歧视如何缓冲白人的自我价值感。当白人参与者被高度种族进步刺激后，他们将一个负面事件归因于他们的种族，他们的内隐自我价值反弹。被提示察觉到低种族进步的参与者没有经历内隐自我价值的波动。此外，在那些被高度种族进步启动的人中，更大的种族折扣（将拒绝归因于种族而不是自我）与更大的自我价值保护有关。这些研究表明，种族现状的变化对白人构成了威胁，而意识到更大的种族偏见是应对这种威胁的一种方式。
In two studies we tested whether racial progress is threatening to Whites and whether perceiving anti-White bias assuages that threat. Study 1 revealed that Whites primed with racial progress exhibited evidence of threat (lower implicit self-worth relative to baseline). Study 2 replicated the threat effect from Study 1 and examined how perceiving discrimination may buffer Whites’ self-worth. After White participants primed with high racial progress attributed a negative event to their race, their implicit self-worth rebounded. Participants primed to perceive low racial progress did not experience fluctuations in implicit self-worth. Furthermore, among those primed with high racial progress, greater racial discounting (attributing rejection to race rather than to the self) was associated with greater self-worth protection. These studies suggest that changes to the racial status quo are threatening to Whites and that perceiving greater racial bias is a way to manage that threat.