Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, 552 University Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2013 Mar;39(3):401-14. doi: 10.1177/0146167213475367. Epub 2013 Jan 31.
Whites' nonprejudiced behavior toward racial/ethnic minorities can be attributionally ambiguous for perceivers, who may wonder whether the behavior was motivated by a genuine internal commitment to egalitarianism or was externally motivated by desires to avoid appearing prejudiced to others. This article reports the development of a scale that measures perceptions of Whites' internal and external motives for avoiding prejudice (Perceived Internal Motivation Scale/Perceived External Motivation Scale [PIMS/PEMS]) and tests of its internal, test-retest, discriminant, convergent, and predictive validity among ethnic minority perceivers. Minorities perceived Whites as having internal and external motives for nonprejudiced behavior that were theoretically consistent with but distinct from established measures of minority-group members' concerns in interracial interactions. Tests of the predictive validity of PIMS/PEMS showed that when a White evaluator praised the mediocre essay of a minority target, minorities who were high PEMS and low PIMS were most likely to regard the feedback as inauthentic and derogate the quality of the essay.
对于感知者来说，白人对种族/族裔少数群体无偏见的行为可能归因于模糊性，他们可能想知道这种行为是出于对平等主义的真正内在承诺，还是出于避免对他人表现出偏见的外在动机。本文报告了一种衡量感知者对白人避免偏见的内在和外在动机的量表的发展（感知内在动机量表/感知外在动机量表[PIMS/PEMS]），并测试了其在少数族裔感知者中的内部、重测、区分、收敛和预测有效性。少数群体认为白人有内在和外在的动机来表现出无偏见的行为，这与在种族间互动中少数群体成员关注的既定衡量标准理论上一致，但又有所区别。PIMS/PEMS 预测有效性的测试表明，当白人评估者称赞少数族裔目标的平庸论文时，那些 PEMS 高而 PIMS 低的少数群体最有可能认为反馈不真实，并贬低论文的质量。
