Not all egalitarianism is created equal: Unbiased claims inadvertently convey prejudice between members of a group

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104104

Explanation

This study is the result of a study that stated that when people answer that there is no racism, it can be conveyed in the opposite way.

White Americans who advocate egalitarianism may inadvertently communicate racial prejudice to members of their group. Despite most contrary hypotheses, White American perceivers, using only the target's written claim to be egalitarian (Experiment 1; N = 256), inferred the target's underlying racial attitudes in the group, regardless of whether the target had a goal. We also tried to be as unbiased as possible. (Experiment 2; N = 456)

A Branswikian lens analysis identified several linguistic cues that were associated with perceiver accuracy. Language that humanizes African Americans was found to be particularly strongly related to both the target's underlying attitudes and the perceiver's inferences of the target's underlying attitudes.

Experiment 3 (N = 811) reveals that White Americans' egalitarian statements convey racial attitudes in an epidemiological sense. political identification of disagreement. Thus, it is suggested that egalitarian pronouncements may ironically not change egalitarian attitudes.