How national cues increase prejudice among intra-national racial groups: Testing behavioral implications, boundaries, and mechanisms

一个国家的理想和价值观如何影响其公民？ 在日常生活中，一个国家的民族精神在关于时事、政策、丑闻和危机的公共话语中被引用。 人们通常表达对国家价值观和思想的效忠，甚至将其作为为国牺牲的理由。 然而，尽管社会科学界对国家线索如何以微妙和明显的方式影响公民进行了大量的猜测，但令人惊讶的是，很少有实证研究揭示这种情况是如何以及何时发生的。这项研究在理解民族主义符号对人们日常态度、决定和行为的隐性和显性影响方面开辟了新的天地。 研究人员计划确定民族主义暗示的内隐处理增加的情况，而不是减少对种族和民族外群体的偏见和偏见。 这些研究的重点是帮助行为作为一个生态有效的和重要的后果的偏见。 这项研究将在实验室和现场使用尖端和经典的方法，以测试这项研究对帮助来自相似和不同种族和民族群体的人的影响。这项拟议的工作将产生大量的研究活动，涉及本科生，研究生和其他教师的广泛合作努力。 研究人员还在开发一个研究实验室网站，该网站将提供下载研究中使用的数据，任务和措施，以增加合作努力和扩展。 该网站还将有一个重要的公共宣传部分，旨在增加公众对民族主义，偏见和帮助行为的前沿研究的了解。

How do the ideals and values associated with a nation influence its citizens? On a daily basis, the ethos of a nation is invoked in public discourse concerning current events, policies, scandals, and crises. People commonly express allegiance to national values and ideas, even citing them as reasons to die for their country. And yet, despite considerable speculation in the social sciences on how national cues might influence the citizenry in both subtle and obvious ways, there is surprisingly scarce empirical work revealing exactly how and when that happens. The proposed research breaks new ground in understanding the implicit and explicit influence of symbols of nationalism on people's everyday attitudes, decisions, and behaviors. The researchers plan to identify situations in which the implicit processing of cues to nationalism increases, versus decreases, prejudice and bias toward people of racial and ethnic outgroups. The studies focus on helping behavior as an ecologically valid and important consequence of prejudice. The proposed studies use cutting-edge as well as classical methods, in the lab and field, to test the implications this research for helping people from similar versus different racial and ethnic groups.The proposed work will produce a significant amount of research activity that will involve undergraduates, graduate students, and other faculty in a broadly collaborative effort. The researcher is also developing a research lab website that will make available for download the data, tasks, and measures used in the research, in order to increase collaborative efforts and extensions. The website will also have a significant public outreach component aimed at increasing the general public's knowledge of cutting edge research on nationalism, prejudice, and helping behavior.