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 An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy Gunnar Myrdal, 1944 There is no doubt that the overwhelming majority of white Americans desire that there be as few Negroes as possible in America. If the Negroes could be eliminated from America or gre...

 An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy Gunnar Myrdal, 1944 There is no doubt that the overwhelming majority of white Americans desire that there be as few Negroes as possible in America. If the Negroes could be eliminated from America or greatly decreased in numbers, this would meet the whites' approval—provided that it could be accomplished by means which are also approved. Correspondingly, an increase of the proportion of Negroes in the American population is commonly looked upon as undesirable. American creed values democracy and equal opportunity  Social Distance Measure Type of relationship I would admit this group Explicit Measures of Prejudice Explicit-implicit distinction  Implicit Association Test https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/ Fazio’s study of automatic attitudes 1995 Automatic activation of Attitudes Prime snake Present positive words (e.g. likable) and negative words (e.g. disgusting). Is the word good or bad? If snake activates a negative attitude then quicker to respond to negative words than positive words. Black faces vs White faces Positive adjectives and negative adjectives Negative attitude toward Blacks= faster response to negative adjectives than positive adjectives primed with Black faces but not when primed with White faces Phase 1: Is word good or bad Phase 2: Remember faces Phase 3: Recognize faces Phase 4: Combine Phases 1 and 2 Baseline speed for good and bad words Good words Likeable, attractive, wonderful Bad words Annoying, disgusting, offensive Facilitation Task ********* Face for 315 ms 135 ms pause Word Assessing negative attitudes toward Blacks: Faster response to negative adjectives than positive adjectives primed with Black faces but not when primed with White faces Assessing negative attitudes toward Blacks: Faster response to negative adjectives than positive adjectives primed with Black faces but not when primed with White faces Assessing negative attitudes toward Blacks (milliseconds slower than baseline) What Predicts Actual Behavior Rodney King verdict Interaction with a Black Experimenter Modern Racism Scale Automatic attitude measure Motivation I attempt to appear nonprejudiced toward Black people in order to avoid disapproval from others. Because of my personal values, I believe that using stereotypes about Black people is wrong. Affective Misattribution Paradigm (AMP) Affective Misattribution Paradigm (AMP)  The Affect Misattribution Procedure: Ten Years of Evidence on Reliability, Validity, and Mechanisms Social & Personality Psych, Volume: 8, Issue: 12, Pages: 672-686, First published: 07 December 2014, DOI: (10.1111/spc3.12148)  AMP Proportion Like Ideograph Chart Title 0.6 0.55 0.5 0.45 0.4 0.35 0.3 White Participant Black Participant White Target Black Target  Change in Prejudice Positive = increase in prejudice Control Pipeline 0.7 0.35 0 -0.35 -0.7 -1.05 No Ongoing Ongoing But is Bogus Pipeline revealing implicit attitudes or demand to present socially undesirable attitudes instead of true attitudes? Correlation between explicit self report and AMP implicit measure Bogus Pipeline condition r =.49 Control condition r =.13 Implicit measures Summary of explicit-implicit prejudice Bias of Crowds Historical roots of implicit bias in slavery Payne et al 2019  Stability and change Vuletich & Payne, 2019 Community level IAT Eric Hehman http://hehmanlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/bw.jpg Prejudice reduction Reducing intergroup prejudice and conflict using the media: A field experiment in Rwanda Paluck, 2009 Prejudice level and responses to prejudice reduction strategies Vorauer & Sasaki, 2010 Prejudice reduction Prejudice 2  Eye of the storm Iowa, 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apsc1YHn314 https://www.oprah.com/own-where-are-they- now/jane-elliotts-experiment-that-transformed-the- oprah-show-video Dehumanization  Not yet human: Implicit knowledge, historical dehumanization, and contemporary consequences Goff et al 2008 How little detail do you need to recognize the animal? How many frames (how clear and complete an image) before you recognize the animal? Black face prime No prime White face prime 26 25 23 21 20 18 Non-ape Ape Images  How justified the beating Black White 5 4 3 2 1 0 Ape Prime Big cat prime 42 × 300 Is Dehumanization only implicit? Nour Kteily A Conversation With Nour Kteily and Emile Bruneau – Association for Psychological Science – APS Americans rate groups on ascent scale  Rated as significantly less evolved excluded Asian American, Arab American and Latino respondents Donation Response to injustice