Aggressive confrontation shapes perceptions and attitudes toward racist content online

Meyers, Chanel; Leon, Angelica; Williams, Amanda

doi:10.1177/1368430220935974

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“…In this vein of research, Foster (2015) found that individuals who publicly (vs. privately) tweeted disapproval of sexism reported lower negative affect and greater psychological well‐being. As another example, Meyers et al (2020) found that participants perceive perpetrators’ racist Facebook posts to be more offensive and more likely to report the post to Facebook moderators after reading aggressive (vs. calm) responses to the perpetrator. Meyers et al (2020) also found that participants rated aggressive (vs. calm) Facebook commenters more positively.…”

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Confronting sexism: Identifying dimensions and exploring impact

Dray

Sabat

2022

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Although the effects of confronting sexism have been examined in the past, no research to date has demonstrated the most common dimensions along which confrontations of workplace sexism differ. Furthermore, previous research has not fully examined how different forms of sexism confrontations differentially impact the workplace experiences of targets experiencing these sexist actions. Thus, these two studies examine how confrontations of workplace sexism commonly differ and the workplace implications of these differences. In Study 1, data were collected from individuals who had witnessed a sexist encounter in the workplace that was subsequently confronted. Using a content analysis approach, we found that the most common differences in confrontations of workplace sexism included the identity of the confronter, the tone of the confrontation, the location of the confrontation, the number of confronters, and the timing of the confrontation. In Studies 2 and 3, we examined how these differences impacted job stress, turnover intentions, perceived organizational support, job satisfaction, and workplace diversity climate of women targets. In Study 2, analysis of survey data from women employees determined that workplace confrontations of workplace sexism of any form are equally beneficial for women targets. Study 3, an experimental vignette study, provided support for the Study 2 findings. This study aids researchers in understanding the dimensionality of sexism confrontations as well as the relationships between these dimensions and important workplace outcomes. This study will also prove useful for practitioners intent on educating allies and targets on when and how they should confront sexism at work.

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Confronting sexism: Identifying dimensions and exploring impact

Dray

Sabat

2022

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…Meyers et al (2020) conducted three experiments assessing confrontation of racist comments made online concluding that confronting online racist comments had three positive effects. Participants assessed the racist post as more offensive when an ingroup member aggressively confronted racism.…”

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“…It is defined as “verbally or nonverbally expressing one’s dissatisfaction with prejudicial and discriminating treatment to the person who is responsible for the remark or behavior” (Ashburn-Nardo & Karim, 2019). Confrontation has been shown to result in prejudice reduction (Meyers et al, 2020). There may be both social and emotional costs in confronting prejudice.…”

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The negative health effects of anti-Asian stigma in the U.S. during COVID-19.

Bresnahan¹,

Zhu²,

Hooper³

et al. 2023

Stigma and Health

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This study provided a systemic review of the content of 50 behavioral and social science studies investigating enactment and outcomes of anti-Asian stigma related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) published in the final quarter of 2020 and during 2021. Based on a systematic search of several databases in December of 2021, 500 studies describing the impact of COVID-related stigma on Asian Americans were identified. From this group, 50 studies meeting the inclusion criteria were analyzed focusing on health and social consequences of stigma. The studies were described by five stigma themes: the enactment of stigma, health consequences of stigma, stigma in the social media, Asian American stigma in education, and policy and political consequences of anti-Asian stigma. The studies appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals using several methodologies. While some studies exclusively focused on health impacts of stigma, all considered how Asian Americans have been scapegoated for COVID-19. Spread of blame and digital stigma on the social media has been particularly damaging to psychological well-being. Discussion of these studies provided an informative systemic overview for how scholars from various disciplines have investigated the antecedents and possible mechanisms leading to anti-Asian hate. This study serves as a baseline for other scholars who want to build on this body of research in future studies as Omicron and other potential future variants of COVID unfold.

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“…However, confrontations can serve purposes beyond prejudice reduction, such as acting as a coping strategy (Chaney et al., 2015) or promoting norms of egalitarianism more broadly (Czopp et al., 2006; Wellman et al., 2009), suggesting even when people endorse a belief that prejudice is fixed, they may confront for other reasons. e.g., they may cope by using a confrontation style that focuses on one's own experiences with prejudice (e.g., empathy style; Chaney & Sanchez, in press), or use an aggressive confrontation to signal a broader norm (e.g., aggressive confrontations increased perceived offensiveness of act relative to passive confrontations; Meyers et al., 2020).…”

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How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability

Chaney

Wedell

2022

Social & Personality Psych

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The formative framework in prejudice confrontations research has focused on the utility of confrontations to activate one's self-regulation strategies to interrupt unintentional prejudice, discrimination, and stereotyping. As this framework remains dominant in the literature, little research has examined everyday people's theories about prejudice that diverge from this framework and accounted for these theories in investigating confrontation rates and outcomes.In this paper, we review key lay theories of prejudice and discuss the ways in which they may influence prejudice confrontations. First, we summarize lay theories regarding the prevalence, origins, and controllability of prejudice. Next, we consider how lay theories of prejudice may factor into the circumstances under which people confront prejudice, goals that people may hold when confronting, and outcomes of confronting for confronters and perpetrators. Throughout, we highlight fundamental research questions and hypotheses that integrate lay theories of prejudice and prejudice confrontations. We propose that better understanding lay theories of prejudice and how they influence prejudice confrontations may help to advance translational and theoretical research in social psychology.

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Aggressive confrontation shapes perceptions and attitudes toward racist content online

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

Confronting sexism: Identifying dimensions and exploring impact

Confronting sexism: Identifying dimensions and exploring impact

The negative health effects of anti-Asian stigma in the U.S. during COVID-19.

How lay theories of prejudice shape prejudice confrontations: Examining beliefs about prejudice prevalence, origins, and controllability

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