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Prejudice Control and Interracial Relations

The Role of Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice

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ID19280968
AuthorsDavid A Butz (Morehead State University), E Ashby Plant (0000-0002-1074-5087, Florida State University)
Year2009
Volume77
Issue5
Pages1311-1342
Publication date2009-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Personality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3506 • E-ISSN: 1467-6494
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00583.x
PMID19686455
OpenAlexW2135542542
LanguageEN
Citations received40
References cited52

A decade of research indicates that individual differences in motivation to respond without prejudice have important implications for the control of prejudice and interracial relations. In reviewing this work, we draw on W. Mischel and Y. Shoda's (1995, 1999) Cognitive-Affective Processing System (CAPS) to demonstrate that people with varying sources of motivation to respond without prejudice respond in distinct ways to situational cues, resulting in differing situation-behavior profiles in interracial contexts. People whose motivation is self-determined (i.e., the internally motivated) effectively control prejudice across situations and strive for positive interracial interactions. In contrast, people who respond without prejudice to avoid social sanction (i.e., the primarily externally motivated) consistently fail at regulating difficult to control prejudice and respond with anxiety and avoidance in interracial interactions. We further consider the nature of the cognitive-affective units of personality associated with motivation to respond without prejudice and their implications for the quality of interracial relations

Anxiety · Cognition · Control (management) · Need for cognition · Personality · Prejudice (legal term) · Situational ethics · Cultural Differences and Values · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology

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