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HOW SOCIAL DOMINANCE ORIENTATION AND JOB STATUS INFLUENCE PERCEPTIONS OF AFRICAN‐AMERICAN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BENEFICIARIES
Author(s) -
AQUINO KARL,
STEWART MARCUS M.,
REED AMERICUS
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.2005.681.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , affirmative action , perception , test (biology) , social dominance orientation , social cognitive theory , social perception , job performance , beneficiary , dominance (genetics) , social status , job satisfaction , sociology , politics , political science , paleontology , social science , authoritarianism , neuroscience , anthropology , law , democracy , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
This paper examines evaluative judgments about an African‐American beneficiary of affirmative action (AA) in two studies. Based on a motivated social cognition model, we test whether the use of AA, social dominance orientation (SDO), and job status jointly influence judgments about the future job performance and career progression of an AA beneficiary. In a sample of 244 undergraduate business students, Study 1 showed that SDO and AA interact to predict job‐related performance expectations, and AA and job status interact to predict career progression expectations. Study 2 used a different sample of 190 business undergraduates to test whether the effects of AA, job status, SDO and their interactions on evaluative judgments is mediated by stereotype application. Results showed that different dimensions of stereotypes mediated the relationships between SDO, job status and the AA × SDO interaction.