White Students' Intergroup Anxiety During Same-Race and Interracial Interactions: A Multimethod Approach

Littleford, Linh Nguyen; Wright, Margaret O’Dougherty; Sayoc-Parial, Maria

doi:10.1207/s15324834basp2701_9

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“…Physiological data indicate that Whites who interacted with African Americans demonstrated increases in responses consistent with threat (Blascovich, Mendes, Hunter, Lickel, & KowaiBell, 2001;Littleford, Wright, & Sayoc-Parial, 2005). However, supporting the value of contact quantity in anxiety reduction, participants with frequent contact experiences demonstrated fewer threat responses when interacting with African Americans than those with less frequent contact (Blascovich, et al, 2001).…”

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Contact, Perspective Taking, and Anxiety as Predictors of Stereotype Endorsement, Explicit Attitudes, and Implicit Attitudes

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Haag

2007

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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We proposed a model of intergroup contact wherein contact promotes understanding of outgroup perspectives, perspective taking relates to reduced intergroup anxiety that in turn is associated with lessened stereotyping and more positive intergroup attitudes. Additionally, we examined if implicit attitudes followed this model or were directly impacted by contact. White undergraduates (n = 153) completed measures of contact, perspective taking, intergroup anxiety, stereotype endorsement, and implicit and explicit intergroup attitudes. Our model fitted the data well but explained explicit attitudes and stereotyping better than implicit attitudes. Supporting an environmental association interpretation, contact was the only significant predictor of implicit attitudes. Findings support a dual-process model wherein implicit and explicit attitudes represent separate constructs and support the value of contact in improving intergroup attitudes

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Contact, Perspective Taking, and Anxiety as Predictors of Stereotype Endorsement, Explicit Attitudes, and Implicit Attitudes

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Haag

2007

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…For example, when experiencing intergroup anxiety, White women responded by acting friendlier toward an other-race partner, but White men acted less friendly (Littleford, Wright, & Sayoc-Parial, 2005). Interestingly, minority group members also feel that women respond to them more positively.…”

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“…For example, in a study by Shelton and Richeson (2006a, Study 2), ethnic minority participants who had either White or minority roommates completed a series of daily questionnaires about the quality of their contact with that roommate, their sense of closeness, and their own affective state. A few studies from this time period also included physiological and neurological measures (e.g., Amodio, 2009;Littleford et al, 2005;Mendes, Major, McCoy, & Blascovich, 2008). Because of the limited number of studies of this type, we thought it was premature to include these measures as a fifth outcome variable in this meta-analysis, but they provide evidence of another emerging trend in the study of intergroup relations.…”

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“…For example, future studies should examine how the processes already identified in the context of White-Black relations in the United States apply in other intergroup settings. To our knowledge, only one study has directly compared WhiteBlack dyads to White-Asian dyads, and it found that although both evoked more anxiety than same-race interactions, members of White-Asian dyads reported less anxiety than members of WhiteBlack dyads (Littleford et al, 2005). A longitudinal study of roommate groups also demonstrated unique outcomes for individuals who had Asian American, Latino, Black, or White roommates (Van Laar, Levin, Sinclair, & Sidanius, 2005).…”

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Dyadic interracial interactions: A meta-analysis

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Toosi²,

Ambady³

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This meta-analysis examined over 40 years of research on interracial interactions by exploring 4 types of outcomes: explicit attitudes toward interaction partners, participants' self-reports of their own emotional state, nonverbal or observed behavior, and objective measures of performance. Data were collected from 108 samples (N ϭ 12,463) comparing dyadic interracial and same-race interactions, predominantly featuring Black and White Americans. Effect sizes were small: Participants in same-race dyads tended to express marginally more positive attitudes about their partners (r ϭ .07), reported feeling less negative affect (r ϭ .10), showed more friendly nonverbal behavior (r ϭ .09), and scored higher on performance measures (r ϭ .07) than those in interracial dyads. Effect sizes also showed substantial heterogeneity, and further analyses indicated that intersectional, contextual, and relational factors moderated these outcomes. For example, when members of a dyad were the same sex, differences between interracial and same-race dyads in negative affect were reduced. Structured interactions led to more egalitarian performance outcomes than did free-form interactions, but the effects of interaction structure on nonverbal behavior depended on participant gender. Furthermore, benefits of intergroup contact were apparent: Differences in emotional state across dyadic racial composition disappeared in longer term interactions, and racial minorities, who often have greater experience with intergroup contact, experienced less negative affect in interracial interactions than did majority group members. Finally, there was a significant historical trend toward more egalitarian outcomes across dyadic racial composition for explicit attitudes and for nonverbal behavior; however, participants' emotional responses and performance have remained consistent.

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“…For example, one study found that White women responded to intergroup anxiety by acting friendlier toward an other-race partner in contrast to White men, who became less friendly (Littleford, Wright, & Sayoc-Parial, 2005). Greater endorsement of a feminine self-concept has been linked with higher internal motivation to avoid prejudice (Ratcliff, Lassiter, Markman, & Snyder, 2006) and less support for social inequalities (Foels & Pappas, 2004), and in general, women report more positive race-related attitudes than men (Eagly, Diekman, Johannesen-Schmidt, & Koenig, 2004;Johnson & Marini, 1998;Sidanius, Pratto, & Bobo, 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%