1. Status-based asymmetry in intergroup responses: Implications for intergroup reconciliation.
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Malloy TE, Ristikari T, Berrios-Candelaria R, Lewis B, and Agatstein F
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- Affect, Analysis of Variance, Female, Humans, Male, Social Behavior, Students psychology, Universities, Young Adult, Black or African American psychology, Interpersonal Relations, Prejudice, Social Perception, White People psychology
- Abstract
We studied intergroup responses as a function of relative intergroup status and familiarity. In Study 1, 34 African Americans and 34 European Americans interacted with two members of the out-group in separate, 20-min dyadic interactions. Intergroup perception, affect, and behavior were asymmetric; Blacks differentiated the traits of and the quality of interactions with Whites, whereas Whites did not make these differentiations. Blacks and Whites predicted that different out-group partners perceived them similarly. Study 2 showed that the failure to differentiate an out-group member is due to intergroup status differences. Asymmetric intergroup responses pose a barrier to intergroup reconciliation and explain, in part, why increased interracial contact has not eradicated disparities in life outcomes for Black Americans.
- Published
- 2011
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