Research article summary (published 30 Mar 2003):

Political orientation and modern versus aversive racism: tests of Dovidio and Gaertner's (1998) integrated model.

Full Abstract

According to J. F. Dovidio and S. L. Gaertner's (1998) integrated model of racism, politically liberal European Americans tend to express racism differently than conservative European Americans, with liberals demonstrating aversive racism and conservatives, symbolic or modern racism. In support of the model, in Experiment 1 liberals showed bias in favor of a twice-prosecuted African American relative to a European American in their judgment of double jeopardy, whereas conservatives did the reverse. Experiment 2 replicated these effects while eliminating a confound in the design of Experiment 1. Experiment 3 found evidence for the intrapsychic conflict hypothesized to underlie aversive racism. Specifically, only liberals displayed greater physiological arousal to the touch of an African American versus a European American experimenter.

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Author information

Author/s: Nail, Paul R (PR); Harton, Helen C (HC); Decker, Brian P (BP);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, 73096, USA. nailp(-atsign-)swosu.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of personality and social psychology (J Pers Soc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Apr; vol 84 (issue 4) : pp 754-70

Dates: Created 2003/04/21; Completed 2003/07/28; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12703647, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Adolescent Adult Aged Female Humans Judgment Male

Male Middle Aged Politics Prejudice Psychological Tests Questionnaires Random Allocation

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