Journal
JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 84, Issue 5, Pages 944-959Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.5.944
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- NIMH NIH HHS [F32-MH12787] Funding Source: Medline
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Four experiments examined how an actor's intent and the harm experienced by a target influence judgments of prejudice and discrimination. The presence of intent increased the likelihood that participants judged an actor as prejudiced and the actor's behavior as discriminatory. When intent was uncertain, harm influenced judgments of the behavior, which in turn influenced judgments of the actor, and participants were more cautious in their judgments about an actor than an actor's behavior. Harm also played a stronger role in targets' than observers' judgments. Understanding the role of intent and harm on perceptions of prejudice can help explain variations in targets' versus observers', and possibly targets' versus actors', judgments of discrimination and prejudice.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available