A field study around a racial justice protest on a college campus: The proximal impact of collective action on the social change attitudes of uninvolved bystanders
A field study around a racial justice protest on a college campus: The proximal impact of collective action on the social change attitudes of uninvolved bystanders
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围绕大学校园种族正义抗议的实地研究：集体行动对未参与的旁观者社会变革态度的近端影响
DOI：
10.5964/jspp.v7i1.1063
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Brian Lickel
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作者：
H. Selvanathan;Brian Lickel
社会运动经常使用抗议和其他集体行动来吸引公众对其事业的关注，但目标受众对这些行动的心理反应并不是很好地理解。这项研究使用了一项围绕美国一所大型公立大学发生的种族正义抗议活动设计的准实验场研究，调查了不参与其中的旁观者对集体行动的直接反应。我们在相同的时间和地点调查了两个相隔整整一周的学生样本，第一次是在没有抗议的情况下，然后是在发生种族正义抗议的时候(总计N=240)。我们发现，与没有抗议的当天相比，认为种族主义在校园里不是问题的参与者在抗议当天对种族正义抗议和抗议者的负面态度更多，而对校园内反种族主义努力的支持率更低。这些发现提供了初步证据，表明抗议遭遇可能会在那些对社会变革持最抵制态度的人中引发反弹效应。
Social movements often use protests and other collective actions to draw public attention to their cause, yet the psychological reactions to such actions from their targeted audience is not well understood. This research investigates uninvolved bystanders’ immediate responses to collective action using a quasi-experimental field study designed around a racial justice protest that took place at a large public university in the United States. We surveyed two student samples exactly one week apart at the same time and location, first in the absence of protest and then again at the time of a racial justice protest (Total N = 240). We found that participants who believed that racism was not a problem on campus had more negative attitudes toward racial justice protests and protesters, as well as lower support for anti-racist efforts on campus on the day of the protest, compared to the day without a protest. These findings provide initial evidence that a protest encounter may trigger a backlash effect amongst those who have the most resistant attitudes toward social change.