Proneness to prejudiced responses: toward understanding the authenticity of self-reported discrepancies.
Journal Article
Three studies investigated the authenticity of prejudice-related discrepancies. A comprehensive discrepancy questionnaire was developed (Study 1), which yielded small as well as large discrepancy scores. Study 2 indicated that discrepancy scores were stable, and personality could not account for the relation between discrepancies and their affective consequences. In Study 3, low-prejudice participants responded to jokes about Blacks under high or low distraction. Behavioral validation for self-reported discrepancies was found, such that participants with larger discrepancies evaluated the jokes more favorably under high than low distraction, but participants with smaller discrepancies provided equally unfavorable evaluations in both distraction conditions. Implications for understanding people's abilities to avoid potentially prejudiced responses and their self-insight into such abilities are discussed.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Monteith, MJ; Voils, CI
Published Date
- October 1998
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 75 / 4
Start / End Page
- 901 - 916
PubMed ID
- 9825527
Pubmed Central ID
- 9825527
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0022-3514
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1037//0022-3514.75.4.901
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States