Race in the Live and the Virtual Interview: Racial Deference, Social Desirability, and Activation Effects in Attitude Surveys

By M. Krysan, Mick Couper. 2003

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How Social Representations of Attitudes Have Informed Attitude Theories (2006, background): “Within an individualistic framework, for example, it is only possible to ask questions about the stability and consistency of racial attitudes (Nier, Mottola and Gaertner, 2000), why it may be that certain individuals hold ‘more’ racist attitudes than others (Heaven, 2001), or which research methods”
On Assessing the Political Effects of Racial Prejudice (2009, background): “Krysan & Couper (2003) report a difference of 35 percentage points in whites’ closeness to other whites when asked by a black (30”
Does Diversity-Valuing Behavior Result in Diminished Performance Ratings for Non-White and Female Leaders? (2017, background): “For example, White participants tend to give overly positive evaluations of minorities and overly negative evaluations of Whites in order to avoid appearing racist to researchers (Krysan & Couper, 2003) and pollsters (Hopkins, 2008).”