Differences in Anglo and Asian Australians explicit and implicit prejudice and the attenuation of their implicit in-group bias Author Joshua McGrane, Fiona White Publication Year 2007 Type Journal Article Abstract Research has shown that not only are minority groups capable of possessing implicit and explicit prejudice but that the study of their attitudes provides unique insight into the nature of prejudice. The current study found that in an Australian context, Asian participants displayed significantly less implicit prejudice and significantly greater explicit prejudice than their Anglo counterparts. This finding provided further evidence of the dissociation of explicit and implicit attitudes, specifically in regard to their predication. In addition, the attenuation of the implicit prejudice of both the Anglo majority and Asian minority group members was investigated. Brief exposure to positive out-group exemplars was found to attenuate the implicit bias of Asian but not Anglo participants, suggesting that this technique may be contingent upon more fundamental prejudice-reducing measures and providing further support that the undermining of implicit biases requires long-term, effortful processes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) Keywords Anglo & Asian Australian differences, explicit prejudice, implicit bias Journal Asian Journal Of Social Psychology Volume 10 Pages 204–210 Type of Article Journal Article DOI 10.1111/j.1467-839x.2007.00228.x Full text The following is an excerpt of the intervention methodology. For more information, please see the full text of the article on the publisher's website or through your institution's library. Method Participants All participants (N = 118) were introductory psychology students at the University of Sydney, Australia who were selected on the basis that they had been living in Australia since they were 5 years of age or younger. [...] Materials Selection of faces for exemplar exposure task. Similar to Dasgupta and Greenwald (2001), 48 renowned Anglo and Asian individuals were selected through personal and professional correspondence. [...] Implicit Association Test. The IAT was chosen as the measure of implicit prejudice in this study primarily for comparability with the study of Dasgupta and Greenwald (2001). [...] Procedure After initial introductory statements, the exemplar exposure task was performed. This task was presented to all via computer as a general knowledge task assessing participants’ categorization ability. The procedure was identical to Dasgupta and Greenwald (2001) with participants in the racial exemplar exposure group required to categorize images of famous, positive out-group individuals and infamous, negative in-group individuals. The neutral exemplar exposure group was shown pictures of and required to categorize flowers and insects. After completing the exemplar exposure task, participants immediately undertook the IAT. For comparability, the procedure was identical to the IAT procedure of Dasgupta and Greenwald (2001). Upon completing the IAT, the participants filled out a questionnaire booklet including demographic data and the Blatant and Subtle Prejudice Scales. [...] Type of Prejudice/Bias Race/Ethnicity Country Australia Method Lab Setting College/University Google ScholarDOIBibTeX
