Harber K D
Department of Psychology, Stanford University.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1998 Mar;74(3):622-8. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.74.3.622.
This research tested the prediction that Whites supply more lenient feedback to Blacks than to fellow Whites. In Study 1, White undergraduates were led to believe that they were giving feedback on essays written by either a Black or a White fellow student. As predicted, feedback was less critical when the supposed feedback recipient was Black rather than White. It was also predicted that the feedback bias would be selective for subjective evaluative domains (i.e., essay content) in contrast to objective evaluative domains (i.e., essay mechanics). An interaction between recipient race and evaluative domain confirmed this prediction. The domain-specific quality of the feedback bias suggests that the bias may arise from social motives rather than from more automatic processes. Study 2 replicated these results.
白人对黑人提供的反馈比对白人同伴更宽容。在研究1中，白人本科生被引导相信他们正在对一名黑人或白人同学所写的文章提供反馈。正如预测的那样，当假定的反馈接受者是黑人而非白人时，反馈的批评性较弱。研究还预测，与客观评价领域（即文章写作技巧）相比，反馈偏见在主观评价领域（即文章内容）中会更具选择性。接受者种族与评价领域之间的交互作用证实了这一预测。反馈偏见的领域特异性表明，这种偏见可能源于社会动机，而非更自动的过程。研究2重复了这些结果。
