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Methodological Issues in Predicting Discrimination from Attitudes, Prejudices, and Stereotypes

Year: 2015

Type: report

Abstract: A central question for social psychologists is to what extent attitudes, prejudice, and stereotypes are precursors of ethnic and racial discrimination. Operationalized, this question can be framed as the extent measures of such constructs predict differential treatment of individuals from one group compared to a comparison group. Yet, in the literature, it is common to substitute this operationalization for a simpler one: measures predicting behavior toward a single group. We argue that this simpler operationalization lacks validity and yields uninformative effect sizes. We provide several suggestions on how to include, and make most use of, comparison groups, when predicting discrimination.

Source: KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Authors: Rickard Carlsson, Jens Agerström

Institution: Linnaeus University

Language: English

Topic: Social and Intergroup Psychology

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2296737341

Cites: 14

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