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PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY BULLETIN
Volume 30, Issue 11, Pages 1458-1471Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0146167204264244
Keywords
intergroup anxiety; prejudice; interracial interaction; motivation
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R03 MH66055] Funding Source: Medline
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The current work tested and expanded on Plant and Devine's (2003) model of the antecedents and implications of interracial anxiety by examining peoples experiences with interracial interactions at two time points. Study 1 explored non-Black people's responses to interactions with Black people and Study 2 explored Black people's responses to interactions with White people. Non-Black participants' expectancies about coming across as biased in interracial interactions and Black participants' expectancies about White peoples bias predicted their interracial anxiety and whether they had positive interactions with outgroup members during the 2 weeks between assessments. Across both studies, interracial anxiety predicted the desire to avoid interactions with outgroup members. In addition, participants who were personally motivated to respond without prejudice reported more positive expectancies. The findings are discussed in terms of the implications for understanding the course and quality of interracial interactions.
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