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- Title
MODERN RACISM AND INTERGROUP BIAS IN CAUSAL EXPLANATION.
- Authors
Schnake, Sherry B.; Beal, Daniel J.; Ruscher, Janet B.
- Abstract
Intergroup bias emerges in causal explanation, such that ingroup but not outgroup members often are credited for positive behaviors and forgiven for negative behavior. When two potential explanations for behavior appear, conversational conventions predict that individuals weight the later explanation most heavily in their judgments. Previous work on conversational conventions, however, finds that people follow conversational conventions when they best support intergroup bias. The present study investigated the extent to which individual differences in prejudice moderated this pattern. European American participants who were determined to be low or high in modern racism read about the behaviors of European American and African American actors. When mitigating external explanations for negative behaviors or disposition-crediting explanations for positive behaviors were provided last, individuals high in modern racism tended to rely upon conversational conventions only for European American actors. That is, high modern racists' selective reliance upon conversational conventions forgave ingroup members for their faults, and tended to credit them for their virtues; consistent with intergroup bias, they did not extend this courtesy to outgroup members.
- Subjects
RACISM; RACE discrimination; ETHNOCENTRISM; INDIVIDUAL differences; HUMAN acts (Ethics); SOCIAL interaction; VIRTUE; CHRISTIAN ethics; AFRICAN Americans
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2006, Vol 13, Issue 1/2, p133
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article