The origins of symbolic racism.

By D. O. Sears, P. Henry, Donald R Kinder, J. B. Mcconahay, Rick Koster-Man, Christopher Tarman, C. Van, Laar. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Television Viewing, Racial Attitudes, and Policy Preferences: Exploring the Role of Social Identity and Intergroup Emotions in Influencing Support for Affirmative Action (2010, background): “…DOI: 10.1080/03637750903514300 Vol. 77, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 102 120 Research from a variety of sources suggests that racism is one of the key forces driving opposition for race-related policies such as affirmative action (Federico & Sidanius, 2002; Sears & Henry, 2003; Sears & Jessor, 1996).”
Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (2017, methodology): “However, differences did emerge regarding participants’ level of racial prejudice based on their responses to the Symbolic Racism Scale.1 Consequently, racial prejudice was included as a covariate in all analyses.”
The Aggression-Submission-Conventionalism Scale: Testing a New Three Factor Measure of Authoritarianism (2016, unknown): “In Sample 1 we used an 11-item version of the Symbolic Racism Scale (Sears & Henry, 2003) using only items that could be fit to an agree-disagree rating scale.”
On Assessing the Political Effects of Racial Prejudice (2009, background): “The view that blacks lack sufficient motivation to get ahead is politically consequential and deserves continued attention as a measure of prejudice (see also Sears & Henry 2003).”
Disgust: A predictor of social conservatism and prejudicial attitudes toward homosexuals (2010, background): “…systems should be more likely to endorse socially conservative belief systems, such as authoritarianism, political conservatism, and religious fundamentalism, which encourage prejudice toward outgroups and fear of contamination (Altemeyer & Hunsberger, 1992; Duckitt, 2006; Sears & Henry, 2003).”
Teachers Are People Too: Examining the Racial Bias of Teachers Compared to Other American Adults (2020, background): “Beyond behaviors, political attitudes can be shaped by implicit bias (Pérez, 2010, 2016), explicit bias (Sears & Henry, 2003), and both simultaneously (Lodge & Taber, 2013).”
Psychological Features of Extreme Political Ideologies (2019, background): “For instance, people on the right are more prejudiced of ethnic minorities than people on the left (e.g., Sears & Henry, 2003).”
Educationism and the irony of meritocracy: negative attitudes of higher educated people towards the less educated (2017, result): “Similar to the case of the higher educated, political liberals in the U.S. were also thought to be more tolerant than political conservatives (Farwell & Weiner, 2000; Sears & Henry, 2003).”
The shackled runner: time to rethink positive discrimination? (2010, background): “Commentators have argued that this is particularly the case for contemporary racism where its expression is not overt but is framed in terms of merit and personal effort (see Sears and Henry, 2003).”