Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism Export

@article{citeulike:3871095, abstract = {Contemporary race relations are marked by an apparent paradox: Overt prejudice is strongly condemned, yet acts of blatant racism still frequently occur. We propose that one reason for this inconsistency is that people misunderstand how they would feel and behave after witnessing racism. The present research demonstrates that although people predicted that they would be very upset by a racist act, when people actually experienced this event they showed relatively little emotional distress. Furthermore, people overestimated the degree to which a racist comment would provoke social rejection of the racist. These findings suggest that racism may persevere in part because people who anticipate feeling upset and believe that they will take action may actually respond with indifference when faced with an act of racism. 10.1126/science.1164951}, author = {Kawakami, Kerry and Dunn, Elizabeth and Karmali, Francine and Dovidio, John F.}, citeulike-article-id = {3871095}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1164951}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5911/276}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19131633}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19131633}, doi = {10.1126/science.1164951}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {categories, general}, month = {January}, number = {5911}, pages = {276--278}, posted-at = {2009-01-09 12:22:28}, priority = {2}, title = {Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1164951}, volume = {323}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3871095 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3871095 N2 - Contemporary race relations are marked by an apparent paradox: Overt prejudice is strongly condemned, yet acts of blatant racism still frequently occur. We propose that one reason for this inconsistency is that people misunderstand how they would feel and behave after witnessing racism. The present research demonstrates that although people predicted that they would be very upset by a racist act, when people actually experienced this event they showed relatively little emotional distress. Furthermore, people overestimated the degree to which a racist comment would provoke social rejection of the racist. These findings suggest that racism may persevere in part because people who anticipate feeling upset and believe that they will take action may actually respond with indifference when faced with an act of racism. 10.1126/science.1164951 IS - 5911 JF - Science EP - 278 TI - Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism VL - 323 SP - 276 KW - categories KW - general AU - Kawakami, Kerry AU - Dunn, Elizabeth AU - Karmali, Francine AU - Dovidio, John PY - 2009/01/09/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1164951 ER -