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- Title
White selves: conceptualizing and measuring a dominant-group identity.
- Authors
Knowles, Eric D; Peng, Kaiping
- Abstract
This article addresses the nature and measurement of White racial identity. White identification is conceptualized as an automatic association between the self and the White ingroup; this association is fostered through social exposure to non-Whites and serves to link self- and ingroup evaluations. Four studies validated a measure of White identification against criteria derived from this model. In Study 1, the White Identity Centrality Implicit Association Test (WICIAT) predicted response latencies in a task gauging self-ingroup merging. In Study 2, the WICIAT correlated with census data tapping exposure to non-Whites. In Studies 3 and 4, the WICIAT predicted phenomena associated with the linking of self- and ingroup evaluations: identity-related biases in intergroup categorization (Study 3) and self-evaluative emotional reactions to ingroup transgressions (Study 4). Together, the findings shed light on the antecedents and consequences of White identity, an often-neglected individual difference construct.
- Publication
Journal of personality and social psychology, 2005, Vol 89, Issue 2, p223
- ISSN
0022-3514
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/0022-3514.89.2.223