Open AccessFriendships with Blacks Relate to Lessened Implicit Preferences for Whites Over Blacks
Author(s) -
Christopher L. Aberson
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
collabra. psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.444
H-Index - 10
ISSN - 2474-7394
DOI - 10.1525/collabra.195
Subject(s) - implicit attitude , psychology , implicit association test , social psychology , ingroups and outgroups , white (mutation) , developmental psychology , sample (material) , ethnic group , biochemistry , chemistry , chromatography , gene , sociology , anthropology
The present study examines the relationship between self-reported friendships with Blacks and implicit preferences for Whites relative to Blacks. There is considerable evidence that friendships relate to more favorable attitudes toward outgroups, however, the bulk of this evidence comes from explicit self-report measures. Using a sample of 123,445 participants that completed a Black-White IAT on the Project Implicit website, results indicate that participants reporting either childhood or post-childhood friendships with Blacks demonstrated weaker implicit preferences for Whites over Blacks. The size of this relationship was substantially smaller than found for explicit evaluations of Blacks.