Lofaro Nicole, Irving Louis H, Ratliff Kate A
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2025 Aug;51(8):1411-1430. doi: 10.1177/01461672231219948. Epub 2024 Jan 5.
People who are more defensive about their feedback on the Race-Attitudes Implicit Association Test (IAT) are less willing to engage in anti-bias behaviors. Extending on this work, we statistically clarified defensiveness constructs to predict willingness to engage in anti-bias behaviors among people who received pro-White versus no-bias IAT feedback. We replicated the finding that U.S. Americans are generally defensive toward pro-White IAT feedback, and that more defensiveness predicts less willingness to engage in anti-bias behaviors. However, people who believed their pro-White IAT feedback was an inaccurate reflection of their "true attitudes" were willing to engage in anti-bias behaviors compared with people who received no-bias IAT feedback. These results better illuminate the defensiveness construct suggesting that receiving self-threatening feedback about bias may motivate people's willingness to engage in anti-bias behaviors in different ways depending on how people respond to that feedback.
那些对种族态度内隐联想测验（IAT）反馈更具防御性的人，参与反偏见行为的意愿较低。在此研究基础上进行拓展，我们从统计学角度明确了防御性结构，以预测在收到支持白人或无偏见的IAT反馈的人群中，参与反偏见行为的意愿。我们重复了这一发现：美国人通常对支持白人的IAT反馈持防御态度，且防御性越强，参与反偏见行为的意愿越低。然而，与收到无偏见IAT反馈的人相比，那些认为支持白人的IAT反馈不能准确反映其“真实态度”的人更愿意参与反偏见行为。这些结果更清晰地阐明了防御性结构，表明收到关于偏见的自我威胁反馈可能会根据人们对该反馈的反应方式，以不同方式激发人们参与反偏见行为的意愿。
