Lay Theories About White Racists: What Constitutes Racism (and What Doesn't)

By Samuel R. Sommers, Michael I. Norton. 2006

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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An integrated process model of stereotype threat effects on performance. (2008, background): “Whereas Blacks, Latinos, and American Indians are stereotyped in terms of intellectual skill, White Americans are stereotyped as being racist (Sommers & Norton, 2006; Vorauer, 2003).”
Aid in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: Inferences of Secondary Emotions and Intergroup Helping (2007, background): “First, it has been attributed to differences in social desirability concerns, such that White people in the US are more concerned about appearing racist than members of US racial minority groups (Sommers & Norton, 2006).”
Lay Theories and Intergroup Relations (2006, background): “Examples include lay theories of White racists (Sommers & Norton, 2006) and of entitativity (e.g. Demoulin, Leyens, & Yzerbyt, 2006; Denson, Lickel, Curtis, Stenstrom, & Ames, 2006).”
Group‐based Differences in Perceptions of Racism: What Counts, to Whom, and Why? (2015, background): “To explore this question, researchers investigated which traits and behaviors were judged to constitute evidence of racism (Sommers & Norton, 2006).”
Modern prejudice: Subtle, but unconscious? The role of Bias Awareness in Whites' perceptions of personal and others' biases (2015, methodology): “Before investigating our primary hypothesis, we first investigated whether the blatant and subtle bias items indeed loaded onto two separate factors using a PCA with an oblique rotation (the same rotation employed by Sommers and Norton). With the exception of one item, “A White person prefers to not”
Racism in the Structure of Everyday Worlds: A Cultural-Psychological Perspective (2018, background): “…and Democratic (WEIRD; Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010) settings inform both laypersons’ (particularly White Americans in this case) and psychological science’s conception of racism as individual-level phenomena (e.g., Adams, Edkins, Lacka, Pickett, & Cheryan, 2008; Sommers & Norton, 2006).”