Having an Open Mind
The Impact of Openness to Experience on Interracial Attitudes and Impression Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6205907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francis J Flynn (0000-0001-7083-0999, Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 816-826 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/0022-3514.88.5.816 |
| PMID | 15898877 |
| OpenAlex | W1995492919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 85 |
| References cited | 72 |
This article considers how Openness to Experience may mitigate the negative stereotyping of Black people by White perceivers. As expected, White individuals who scored relatively high on Openness to Experience exhibited less prejudice according to self-report measures of explicit racial attitudes. Further, White participants who rated themselves higher on Openness to Experience formed more favorable impressions of a fictitious Black individual. Finally, after observing informal interviews of White and Black targets, White participants who were more open formed more positive impressions of Black interviewees, particularly on dimensions that correspond to negative racial stereotypes. The effect of Openness to Experience was relatively stronger for judgments of Black interviewees than for judgments of White interviewees. Taken together these findings suggest that explicit racial attitudes and impression formation may depend on the individual characteristics of the perceiver, particularly whether she or he is predisposed to consider stereotype-disconfirming information
Impression formation · Openness to experience · Perception · Prejudice (legal term) · Social perception · Stereotype (UML) · White (mutation) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 4,25 |
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| Citation velocity | current |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 79 |