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Calibrating Prejudice in Milliseconds
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Tetlock, Philip E.; Mitchell, Gregory – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2008
Psychological social psychologists have devoted great effort to measuring the elusive construct of unconscious prejudice. However, recent work underscores both the psychometric flaws of these measures and the weaknesses in claims that they predict behavior in realistic organizational settings. Before accepting unconscious prejudice as an…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Psychometrics, Accountability, Social Bias
Symbolic Racism: Problems of Motive Attribution in Political Analysis.
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Sniderman, Paul M.; Tetlock, Philip E. – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
There are serious shortcomings in the arguments that researchers have advanced to support the symbolic racism thesis. The following aspects are critically discussed: (1) concepts of symbolic racism; (2) methods used to measure symbolic racism; (3) the statement that traditional racism is a spent form; (4) the theorist's disregard of current…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bias, Black Stereotypes, Ethnic Bias
Reflections on American Racism.
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Sniderman, Paul M.; Tetlock, Philip E. – Journal of Social Issues, 1986
The article reaffirms a negative judgment of symbolic racism, criticizing the following: (1) the suggestion that symbolic racism is a new form of racism; (2) the term "symbolic racism"; and (3) research on symbolic racism. The article also sketches a constructive agenda for research on racial policy reasoning. (PS)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bias, Black Stereotypes, Ethnic Bias