RAPID: Human Relations in Los Angeles

2015年8月11日是瓦茨骚乱50周年纪念活动。纪念活动将包括一系列媒体、教育和以社区为基础的节目，突出与社会正义、社区治安和团体关系有关的问题。随着社区对瓦茨纪念活动和其他事件的关注增强了群体认同感，人们可以调查洛杉矶的人口，以检查对种族、民族以及群体内和群体外的态度。这些问题和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。这些成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局势加剧的社区相关。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。这个项目为政治学家和社会心理学家带来了希望，他们对与特殊主义和至高无上的身份相关的问题感兴趣。首先，关于瓦茨年鉴的洛杉矶焦点允许理解在公众越来越多地考虑群体间边界的背景下，随机暴露于特殊和/或高级身份线索是否以及如何产生与学者们在实验室使用身份质数或在诸如这一领域以外的基于调查的研究中发现的结果不同的结果。其次，该调查工具使该项目能够检验身份认同启动对更广泛的结果指标的影响，而不是迄今为止政治学中的内爆。不是只关注未来的政治行为，如投票、示威等，而是扩大关注社区、社会网络、治安、心理健康相关问题等。这种更广泛的关注使人们能够更广泛地洞察基于身份的影响。

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.