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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 2, Pages 367-374Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.11.001
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Implicit prejudice; Political psychology; Attitudes; Social cognition
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The 2008 US presidential election was all unprecedented opportunity to study the role of racial prejudice in political decision making Although explicitly expressed prejudice has declined dramatically during the last four decades. more subtle implict forms of prejudice (which come to mind automatically and may influence behavior unintentionally) may still exist In three surveys of representative samples of American adults, explicit and Implicit prejudice were measured during the months preceding the election Both explicit and implicit prejudice were significant predictors of later vote choice Citizens higher in explicit prejudice were less likely to vote for Barack Obama and more likely to vote for John McCain After controlling for explicit prejudice. citizens higher in Implicit prejudice were less likely to vote for Obama, but were not more likely to vote for McCain Instead. they were more likely to either abstain or to vote for a third-party candidate rather than Obama The results Suggest that racial prejudice may continue to influence the voting process even among people who would not endorse these attitudes (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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