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Social Justice Research
Published in: Social Justice Research 4/2008

01-12-2008

Implicit Outgroup Favoritism and Intergroup Judgment: The Moderating Role of Stereotypic Context

Authors: Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, Nathan J. Johnson

Published in: Social Justice Research | Issue 4/2008

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Abstract

Implicit outgroup favoritism has been documented in a variety of socially disadvantaged groups, yet little is known about the implications of having such bias. The present research examined whether implicit outgroup favoritism predicts judgments of ingroup versus outgroup members, and whether that relationship depends on stereotypic context. One hundred and ten African-American participants were assigned a Black versus a White work partner for a task that required skills that are stereotypically White (e.g., intellect) versus Black (e.g., athleticism). Participants rated Black partners as less competent than White partners on the stereotypically White task. Furthermore, participants who implicitly favored Whites liked Black partners less than White partners, but only on the stereotypically White task. Implications for system justification theory are discussed.
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Footnotes
1
Seventy-eight percent of the participants had a White experimenter. Experimenter race did not affect participants’ IAT scores or their partner ratings, ps > .49, the critical variables in the study.
 
2
We report Cohen’s (e.g., 1988) d as the effect size wherever appropriate. By convention, d values of 0.2, 0.5, and 0.8 are interpreted as small, medium, and large effects, respectively.
 
3
In hindsight, we suspect that some participants failed to notice the motivation item, which was not visually salient as it was formatted differently (i.e., circle the response) from other items on the page (i.e., write out the response).
 
4
We would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for this suggestion.
 
5
Neither participant sex nor task order (i.e., whether participants completed the IAT or partner task first) qualified the obtained partner competence and partner liking findings. These variables were therefore dropped from the reported analyses.
 
6
When absolute measures are preferable to relative ones, there are numerous options for researchers. Some examples include priming techniques (e.g., Fazio, Jackson, Dunton, & Williams, 1995), the Go/No-Go Association Task (Nosek & Banaji, 2001), and the Simple Association Test (Blanton et al., 2006).
 
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Metadata
Title
Implicit Outgroup Favoritism and Intergroup Judgment: The Moderating Role of Stereotypic Context
Authors
Leslie Ashburn-Nardo
Nathan J. Johnson
Publication date
01-12-2008
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Social Justice Research / Issue 4/2008
Print ISSN: 0885-7466
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11211-008-0078-8

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