Partisanship supersedes race
Effects of discussant race and partisanship on Whites' willingness to engage in race-specific conversations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2236471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Osei Appiah (0000-0002-2483-2392, The Ohio State University, corresponding author), W P Eveland (0000-0002-4761-1066, The Ohio State University), Christina M Henry (0000-0002-0799-7347, The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 378-392 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Communication Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0360-3989 • E-ISSN: 1468-2958 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hcr/hqad055 |
| OpenAlex | W4389902222 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 66 |
White participants in the United States were asked to imagine having a hypothetical conversation about race-specific issues with either a White or Black discussant who was described as either a Republican or Democrat. Participants' expectations of encountering negative outcomes during the conversation, and their intentions to avoid the conversation, were measured. The black sheep effect posits that harmful ingroup members are evaluated more negatively than comparable outgroup members because they threaten the ingroup's social identity. Findings indicate discussants' partisanship is more important than their race in guiding respondents' expectations of and desire to engage in cross-group conversations. Whites expected more negative outcomes and intended to avoid conversations more when they imagined talking about race with White discussants from a different political party than they did Black discussants from a different party, Black discussants from the same party, or White discussants from the same party. Intergroup threat and social identity theories are discussed
Conversation · Identity (music · Ingroups and outgroups · Outgroup · Race (biology · Social group · Social identity theory · Sociology · White (mutation · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Communication · Gender Studies · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |