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When stereotype‐based expectancies impair performance: the effect of prejudice, race, and target quality on judgments and perceiver performance
Author(s) -
Vescio Theresa K.,
Biernat Monica
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199911)29:7<961::aid-ejsp977>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - psychology , expectancy theory , prejudice (legal term) , stereotype threat , race (biology) , social psychology , stereotype (uml) , quality (philosophy) , white (mutation) , test (biology) , gender studies , philosophy , epistemology , biology , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry , sociology , gene
High‐ and low‐prejudiced participants were presented with a lecture segment in which the race of the professor (White or Black) and lecture quality (high or low) were manipulated. Consistent with predictions, low‐prejudiced participants were more extreme in their evaluations (more negative) and performed more poorly on test items when presented with an expectancy‐violating low‐quality Black lecturer. High‐prejudiced participants were more extreme in their evaluations (more positive) and performed more poorly when presented with an expectancy‐violating high‐quality Black lecturer. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.