J Soc Psychol. 2024 Mar 3;164(2):258-272. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2022.2046538. Epub 2022 Mar 4.
This study provides support for the theory that individual shame prevents individuals from recognizing their implicit racial biases. Participants across two studies in multiple conditions took the Race IAT, received feedback about their implicit racial bias, and then completed the Shame IAT. We created various conditions either to attribute their implicit racial bias to the self or to create an alternative explanation. The results demonstrated that when individuals attributed their implicit racial bias to themselves vs. an alternative attribution, they subsequently expressed higher levels of interpersonal shame, through increased associations between self-referential and shameful words. The need for positive self-esteem or the avoidance of a negative emotion such as shame may lead participants to avoid examining their own implicit racial biases.
这项研究为个体的羞耻感阻碍其识别内隐种族偏见这一理论提供了支持。在两个多项条件的研究中，参与者参加了内隐联想测试（IAT），收到了关于其内隐种族偏见的反馈，然后完成了羞耻感 IAT。我们创造了各种条件，要么将他们的内隐种族偏见归因于自身，要么给出其他解释。结果表明，当个体将其内隐种族偏见归因于自身而非其他解释时，他们随后会通过增加自我参照词和羞耻词之间的关联，表现出更高水平的人际羞耻感。对积极自尊的需求或对负面情绪（如羞耻感）的回避可能导致参与者避免审视自己的内隐种族偏见。
