Promoting Intraminority Solidarity Through Intergroup Relations Framings

几十年来，社会心理学的研究和理论发展都集中在种族主义的原因和后果上，其中大部分研究集中在黑人和白人的关系上。然而，很少有人关注少数群体对其他少数群体的态度。理解这个问题很重要，因为社会平等和进步取决于少数群体之间的团结，而仅限于黑人和白人关系的研究限制了对少数群体态度和行为的理解。这项研究的重点是框架在群体间偏见中的作用。事实上，人们如何看待其他群体的成员是人类社会认知的一个基本方面，少数族裔群体在多大程度上相互支持，预计将取决于种族主义是如何构成的。促进这一理解有助于制定政策和战略，使所有群体联合起来打击歧视。这个项目建立在这样一个观察基础上：美国白人对美国黑人的种族主义可以用两种不同的方式来框定：反黑人或亲白人。这种框架上的差异预计会影响另一个少数群体与美国黑人的团结或联盟意识。具体地说，这项研究的重点是亚裔美国人与美国黑人的盟友关系。有人假设，将针对美国黑人的种族主义视为反黑人态度的结果，而不是亲白人的态度，将增加亚裔美国人与美国黑人之间的少数族裔团结。一组研究考察了亚裔美国人和美国白人是否认为这些框架彼此不同，或者不同于其他群体间偏见的框架。其他实验考察了反黑人框架是否会导致亚裔美国人体验到对种族主义的更大责任感，并导致与美国黑人更紧密的团结。最后一项实验探索了框架对亚裔美国人对群体间事业的支持的影响。了解群体间冲突的不同框架如何影响与其他少数群体成员的关系，对于建立更全面的群体间关系非常重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Decades of research and theory development in Social Psychology has focused on the causes and consequences of racism, with most of this research focusing on Black-White relations. However, little attention has been devoted to understanding minority groups’ attitudes toward other minority groups. This issue is important to understand because social equality and progress depends on solidarity between minority groups, and research that limits itself to only Black-White relations limits the understanding of attitudes and behavior toward minority groups. This project focuses on the role of framing in intergroup bias. Indeed, how people view members of other groups is a fundamental aspect of human social cognition, and how much racial minority groups support each other is expected to depend on how racism is framed. Advancing this understanding informs policies and strategies that bring all groups together in the fight against discrimination.This project builds on the observation that racism directed by White Americans toward Black Americans can be framed in two distinct ways: as anti-Black or as pro-White. This difference in framing is expected to influence another minority group’s sense of solidarity or allyship with Black Americans. Specifically, this research focuses on Asian American allyship with Black Americans. It is hypothesized that framing racism against Black Americans as the result of anti-Black rather than pro-White attitudes will increase Asian Americans’ intraminority solidarity with Black Americans. One set of studies examines whether Asian Americans and White Americans think about these framings as different from each other or different from other framings of intergroup bias. Additional experiments examine whether an anti-Black framing leads Asian Americans to experience a greater sense of responsibility for racism and results in stronger solidarity with Black Americans. A final experiment explores the effect of framing on Asian Americans support for intergroup causes. Understanding how different framings for intergroup conflict affect allyship from members of other minority groups is important for building a more comprehensive understanding of intergroup relations.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.