RAPID: Human Relations in Los Angeles

2015年8月11日是瓦茨暴动50周年纪念日。纪念活动将包括一系列媒体、教育和社区活动，重点强调与社会正义、社区治安和群体关系有关的问题。随着社区对瓦茨纪念活动以及其他事件的关注，群体认同感的增强，人们可以调查洛杉矶人口，以检查对种族、民族、群体内与群体外的态度。这些问题以及调查实验将使我们更好地了解骚乱的持久影响以及过去一年中发生的其他事件的影响。调查结果可用于为洛杉矶人际关系委员会、社区合作伙伴、市议会和少校办公室制定政策和规划建议。他们的发现也可能与其他群体间紧张关系加剧的社区有关。这包括社区和执法争议激烈的地区，如巴尔的摩、弗格森和查尔斯顿。这个项目为政治科学家和社会心理学家带来了希望，他们对与特殊身份和上级身份相关的问题感兴趣。首先，洛杉矶对瓦茨周年纪念的关注使我们能够理解，在公众日益关注群体间边界的“现实世界”背景下，随机暴露于特殊和/或高级身份线索是否以及如何产生不同于学者们在实验室中使用身份启动或在诸如本领域以外的基于调查的研究中发现的结果。其次，调查工具使该项目能够检查身份启动对更广泛的结果测量的影响，而不是迄今为止在政治学中使用的结果测量。而不是仅仅关注未来的政治行为，如投票，示威等，重点扩大到社区，社会网络，治安，心理健康问题等。这种更广泛的关注使我们能够更深入地了解基于身份的影响。

August 11, 2015 is the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Watts Riots. The commemoration will include a series of media, educational and community-based programs that highlight issues relating to social justice, community policing, and group relations. With the heightened sense of group identity through the community focus on the Watts commemoration as well as other incidents, one can survey the population of Los Angeles to examine attitudes to race, ethnicity, and in-group vs. out-group. The questions along with survey experiments will provide us with a better understanding of the lasting impact of the riots as well as impact of other incidents that have occurred throughout the past year. The finidngs can be used to develop policy and programming recommendations for the L.A. Human Relations Commission, community partners, city council, and the major's office. They findings could also be relevant for other communities with heightened intergroup tensions. This includes areas where community and law enforcement controversies have raged, such as Baltimore, Ferguson, and Charleston.This projects holds promise for political scientists and social psychologists interested in questions related to particularistic and superordinate identities. First, the Los Angeles focus regarding the Watts anniversiary allows for understanding of whether and how random exposure to particularistic and/or superordinate identity cues against a "real world" backdrop of increased public consideration of intergroup boundaries produces results different from what scholars have disccovered in using identity primes in the lab or survey-based studies outside of areas such as this one. Second, the survey instrument enables this project to examine the effects of identity priming on a wider array of outcome meaures than imployed in political science to date. Instead of focusing just on future political behavior such as voting, demonstrating, etc. the focus is broaden to focus on neighborhood, social network, policing, mental health-related issues, etc. This broader focus enables broader insights into identity-based effects.