Research Starter Grant: Understanding Interracial Interactions: How Situational Cues Influence Cognition, Affect, and Behavior During Intergroup Contact

研究启动资助：了解跨种族互动：情境线索如何影响群体间接触期间的认知、情感和行为

• 批准号: 1032702
• 负责人: Mary Murphy
• 金额: $ 2.06万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1032702&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Starter; Grant; Understanding; Interracial

Intellectual Merit. Five experimental studies test causal hypotheses about how the diversity of an interaction partner's friendship network and the goals that they adopt signal identity threat or identity safety to their partner. The research examines the mediating mechanisms for how these cues influence affective, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes of both the racial majority and minority individual in the interaction. The research investigates two potential influences on the experiences of social identity threat among whites and ethnic minorities during interracial interaction: 1) the racial diversity (or homogeneity) of an interaction partner's friendships, and 2) the goals (learning or performance) that the partner adopts for the interaction context. The research tests whether this friendship cue and the goals adopted by one's partner influence ethnic minority and white individuals' interaction experiences. In particular, this research measures levels of social identity threat, affect, behavior during the interactions, cognitive depletion, and satisfaction resulting from the interracial interactions. Furthermore, this research tests whether shifts in people's goals within the interaction context can reduce identity threat, opening the door for positive interracial contact in the future-even in the absence of a diverse friendship network. Taking a relational view of interracial interactions, the research examines the processes by which friendships and goals influence experiences of identity threat and its affective, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes from the perspectives of both majority and minority group members.Broader Impacts. The research makes novel theoretical contributions to the existing literature on interracial interactions and social identity threat, as well as provides practical guidance about how interracial interactions might be structured to reduce identity threat and facilitate smooth exchange and more enjoyment for both minority and majority group members in the future. This NSF Research Starter Grant allows the PI to continue and extend her postdoctoral work on the effects of situational cues and identity contingencies in the context of interracial interactions. This work contributes to identity threat theory and provides a better understanding of the processes by which cues affect the dynamics of interracial interactions. The PI will serve as a role model and mentor to students interested in examining these important societal issues from a rigorous, scientific perspective. Currently, the PI works with a racially diverse team of graduate and undergraduate students in her lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and this funding aids the PI in obtaining the necessary resources, including graduate student support, to begin an independent research program on this topic.

智力优势。五个实验研究测试因果关系的假设如何互动伙伴的友谊网络的多样性和他们采取的信号身份威胁或身份安全的合作伙伴的目标。本研究探讨了这些线索如何影响情感，认知和行为结果的种族多数和少数民族的个人在互动中的中介机制。本研究探讨了两个潜在的影响，在白人和少数民族之间的社会身份威胁的经验，在种族间的互动：1）种族多样性（或同质性）的互动伙伴的友谊，和2）的目标（学习或性能），合作伙伴采用的互动环境。该研究测试了这种友谊暗示和伴侣所采取的目标是否会影响少数族裔和白色个体的互动体验。特别是，本研究测量了社会身份威胁，影响，互动过程中的行为，认知损耗和跨种族互动产生的满意度。此外，这项研究还测试了人们在互动环境中的目标转变是否可以减少身份威胁，为未来积极的跨种族接触打开大门即使在没有多样化的友谊网络的情况下。该研究从种族间互动的关系角度出发，从多数群体和少数群体成员的角度审视了友谊和目标影响身份威胁体验及其情感、认知和行为结果的过程。更广泛的影响。该研究为现有的关于种族间互动和社会身份威胁的文献做出了新的理论贡献，并为未来如何构建种族间互动以减少身份威胁，促进少数群体和多数群体成员的顺利交流和更多享受提供了实践指导。这个NSF研究启动补助金允许PI继续并扩展她的博士后工作，在种族间互动的背景下，情境线索和身份偶然性的影响。这项工作有助于身份威胁理论，并提供了一个更好的理解的过程中，线索影响的动态种族间的相互作用。PI将作为一个榜样和导师，有兴趣从严格的科学角度研究这些重要的社会问题的学生。目前，PI在芝加哥伊利诺伊大学的实验室与一个种族多样化的研究生和本科生团队合作，这笔资金帮助PI获得必要的资源，包括研究生支持，以开始关于这个主题的独立研究计划。