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Interactions of Prejudice with Race and Social Desirability University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology Psychology, Department of May 1970 Positive and negative prejudice: Interactions of prejudice with race and social desirability Richard A. Dienstbier University of Nebraska-Lincoln, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub Part of the Psychiatry and Psychology Commons Dienstbier, Richard A., "Positive and negative prejudice: Interactions of prejudice with race and social desirability" (1970). Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology. 121. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/121 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Psychology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications, Department of Psychology by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Journal of Personality, 38 (1970), pp. 198-215. Copyright © 1970 Blackwell Pub- POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PREJUDICE 199 lishing. Used by permission. pretation of specifi c studies and in a lack of closure on some of the is- sues which have received attention in the recent literature. The various Positive and negative prejudice: studies designed to investigate the belief theory of prejudice (Rokeach, Interactions of prejudice with race and Smith, & Evans, 1960), for ex ample, have employed an array of differ- 1 ent scales and behavioral measures between them as indices of preju- social desirability dice. This variety of dependent measures has caused problems in com- paring the re sults of the various studies. Triandis (1964) has indicat- Richard A. Dienstbier2, University of Rochester ed, for example, not only that there is often a great deal of difference in social distance indicated toward a stimulus individual on different While dictionary defi nitions of the term prejudice often indicate ei- measures but that across different subject populations different factors ther positive or negative bias, the use of the term in the social scienc- emerge on such scales. Triandis’s work has strongly indi cated that it is es has been largely restricted to indicating negative biases, the infor- potentially more useful to operationalize prejudice as a pattern of dis- mation available on positive racial bias, or posi tive prejudice, is mini- crimination on a variety of scales Following these suggestions from mal. Apparent examples of the phenomenon of positive racial bias are the research of Triandis, for the purpose of the studies reported in this becoming relatively common, however. For example, when a universi- paper, prejudice was viewed in terms of discrimination patterns on a ty begins actively to recruit black students whose academic credentials number of scales would not normally be ac ceptable, then a specifi c instance of positive The purpose of the studies of this paper was to investigate positive racial discrimination is occurring, possibly indicating a form of posi- prejudice, with an eye toward underlying dynamics. Positive Negro prej- tive racial prej udice. udice was defi ned (for a specifi c issue) as existing when a Negro stimu- Those studies which bear on positive prejudice were designed to lus individual received less negative discrimination on a specifi c social examine the infl uence of ethnic attitude on reasoning. Prentice (1957) distance dimension than a comparable white stimulus individual. found that subjects scoring in the lower quartile of ethno centrism and Although the fi rst of the two studies reported below was not begun fascism scales demonstrated bias in favor of certain ethnic groups in a in order to investigate positive prejudice, the results were particularly syllogistic reasoning task by accepting syllo gisms favorable to certain interesting insofar as they pertained to positive prej udice. Only those ethnic groups more than comparable but racially neutral syllogisms. aspects of the results which directly relate to positive prejudice are em- In a similar study, Schuman and Harding (1964) found a tendency for phasized in this paper. The second study reported herein was designed highly antiprejudiced sub jects to accept a larger number of irrational to investigate positive prejudice directly, and those results are present- but positive state ments than of irrational but negative statements (when ed in total. each type was paired with a rational statement of opposite sign), lead- Since the hypotheses of the second study were partially based on the ing the authors to conclude that there were individuals who demon- results of the fi rst study, a preview of the results of that fi rst study, as strated “love prejudice.” they pertain to the second, is necessary. It was noted that the factorial The problem of various defi nitions of prejudice goes beyond the design of race by personality valence of Study I allowed the direct com- simple issue of positive or negative bias, the great variability of def- parison of social distance type ratings of the same stimulus personality inition at the operational level has resulted in problems in the inter- with different racial labels, and that for the socially desirable stimulus personality, ap preciable and signifi cant positive prejudice toward Ne- 1 Special thanks are due Vincent Nowlis and Edward E. Ware for advice and en- groes ex isted on several scales. The second study was performed with couragement in the planning and writing of these studies. 2 a group of subjects who were known to be relatively liberal in their so- Presently at the University of Nebraska. cial-political viewpoint. For the second study, it was hypothesized that 198 200 R. DIENSTBIER IN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY 38 (1970) POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE PREJUDICE 201 individuals demonstrating positive prejudice, as defi ned above, would analysis of variance design was thus effected, with two levels each of be on the highly liberal end of attitude scales pertaining to war, crime, order, race, and social desirability, and with each subject seeing two of and rioting and that such individ uals would be low in dogmatism and the four personality-race combinations. The effects of race, personali- rigidity as measured by standard personality tests of those variables. ty, and order, and the triple interactions were therefore within-subject Those hypotheses were derived from the extensive literature on author- differences in the analyses of variance of the scales; the three two-way itarianism starting with Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, and San- interactions were all between-subject effects. ford (1950). That research has indicated that conservative or puni tive The personality profi les. The personality profi les were introduced social attitudes and tendencies to be rigid and dogmatic are often asso- by instructions which indicated that the evaluations were part of a ciated with negative racial prejudice. The hypotheses of Study II were study in interpersonal liking and that the persons who were to be eval- based on the assumption that the personality correlates which are nor- uated were real people. Emphasis was placed on the desirability of mally associated with negative racial prejudice will be negatively relat- answers refl ecting real honesty, subjects were assured that no identi- ed to positive prejudice. That hypothesis is also related to hypotheses fi cation with their own answers would be required, and none were. suggested by Keniston (1967) that student liberalism, related to person- The profi les were each approximately 200 words in length. That of ality character istics of fl exibility and open-mindedness, is characterized the individual with positive values (John) depicted a likable and so- by identifi cation with the oppressed. cially successful high school junior who was college bound upon his graduation, and whose ideas were “a lot like those of most people his STUDY I age.” The sketch of the negative individual (Jack) described a 17- year- Subjects old high school dropout who was a somewhat greedy, shy, and rebel- Subjects were 80 male juniors from a Jesuit high school in a sub- lious social misfi t whose ideas were generally “too far out for most of urb of Rochester, New York; 78 of the subjects were white, and 2 were the other people his age.” Negro. The scaling of the parents’ occupations on the Warner, Meeker, Race was indicated by the profi le title and by the phrase “is a Negro and Eels (1949) index indicated that generally the subjects were from who” inserted in the fi rst line of the profi le when it pertained to a Ne- the middle range of the middle class. gro stimulus person. Race was also indicated on each of the pages of The subjects were not volunteers, three entire classes which would scales pertaining to a given profi le by a title line identical to that used normally have received regular instruction during that time were used. with the personality sketch (e.g., “Jack B , Age 17, Negro, High School Dropout”). Each sketch, with its name, race, age, and status designa- Procedure tion, appeared on an individual page. Design. Each subject read and evaluated two personality profi les, Prejudice measures. The prejudice measures followed (on subse- one of which was Negro, one white. One of the profi les pertained to quent test booklet pages) the profi le to which they pertained. The mea- a stimulus person who had beliefs and values of high social desirabil- sures of prejudice or social distance toward the stimulus persons were ity (the John profi le), while the other profi le described a stimulus per- scales taken from or related to those used in the belief theory of prej- son with characteristics generally low in social desirability (the Jack udice studies of the 1960’s. The purpose of this rather wide range of pro fi le). Subjects who were presented the desirable profi le as that of a scales was simply to allow comparisons between the data from a num- white person evaluated the undesirable profi le as that of a Negro, the ber of studies pertaining to the belief theory of prejudice.
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