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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 90, Issue 6, Pages 961-974Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.6.961
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affirmative action; race; White identity; group interest
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The present experiments suggest that the desire to benefit the in-group drives dominant-group members' policy preferences, independent of concern for out-groups' outcomes. In Experiment 1, the effect of a manipulation of affirmative action procedures on policy support was mediated by how Whites expected the policy to affect fellow Whites, but not by the expected effect on minorities. In Experiments 2 and 3, when focused on losses for the White in-group, Whites' racial identity was negatively related to support for affirmative action. However, when focused on gains for the Black out-group or when participants were told that Whites were not affected by the policy, racial identity did not predict attitudes toward the policy. In Experiments 2 and 3, perceived fairness mediated these effects.
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