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Political Orientation And Modern Versus Aversive Racism: Tests Of Dovidio And Gaertner's (1998) Integrated Model

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volume

84

Issue

4

First Page

754

Last Page

770

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.

Department

Department of Psychology

Original Publication Date

1-1-2003

DOI of published version

10.1037/0022-3514.84.4.754

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