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Effects of Native American Race, Intoxication, and Crime Severity on Judgments of Guilt
Author(s) -
StruckmanJohnson Cindy,
Miller Michael G.,
StruckmanJohnson David
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2008.00376.x
Subject(s) - psychology , race (biology) , social psychology , criminology , native american , white (mutation) , variance (accounting) , sociology , ethnology , gender studies , biochemistry , chemistry , accounting , business , gene
The effects of Native American race, crime severity, and intoxication on 293 college students' judgments of guilt were investigated. Participants read vignettes of a robbery or a robbery resulting in murder committed by a male defendant with a Native American or a White European surname. The defendant was described as highly intoxicated in half of the conditions. A 2 × 2 × 2 ANOVA revealed a marginally significant 3‐way interaction. In the robbery–murder condition, the intoxicated Native American defendant was judged as guiltier than the Native American defendant with no intoxication information. We labeled this a stereotypical drunken‐Indian bias. The results suggested that judgments given by lower and higher prejudiced participants canceled each other out.