| Will the "real" American please stand up? The effect of implicit national prototypes on discriminatory behavior and judgments. | |
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PMID: 20729337 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Three studies tested whether implicit prototypes about who is authentically American predict discriminatory behavior and judgments against Americans of non-European descent. These studies identified specific contexts in which discrimination is more versus less likely to occur, the underlying mechanism driving it, and moderators of such discrimination. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated that the more participants held implicit beliefs that the prototypical American is White, the less willing they were to hire qualified Asian Americans in national security jobs; however, this relation did not hold in identical corporate jobs where national security was irrelevant. The implicit belief-behavior link was mediated by doubts about Asian Americans' national loyalty. Study 3 demonstrated a similar effect in a different domain: The more participants harbored race-based national prototypes, the more negatively they evaluated an immigration policy proposed by an Asian American but not a White policy writer. Political conservatism magnified this effect because of greater concerns about the national loyalty of Asian Americans. |
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Authors:
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Kumar Yogeeswaran; Nilanjana Dasgupta |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2010-08-20 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Personality & social psychology bulletin Volume: 36 ISSN: 1552-7433 ISO Abbreviation: Pers Soc Psychol Bull Publication Date: 2010 Oct |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-09-29 Completed Date: 2011-02-02 Revised Date: 2011-02-10 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 7809042 Medline TA: Pers Soc Psychol Bull Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 1332-45 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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626 Tobin Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. kumar@psych.umass.edu |
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Asian Americans* European Continental Ancestry Group / psychology Female Humans Male Minority Groups* Personnel Selection* Politics* Prejudice* Regression Analysis Security Measures Social Perception* Stereotyping United States |
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