Changing Racial Beliefs by Providing Consensus Information

By C. Stangor, G. B. Sechrist, John T. Jost. 2001

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Social norms and the expression and suppression of prejudice: the struggle for internalization. (2002, neutral): “Stangor, Sechrist, and Jost (2001) have shown that merely changing the apparent consensus about a group is enough to change prejudiced expression.”
"Talk does not cook rice": Beyond anti-racism rhetoric to strategies for social action (2005, background): “In a qualitative study conducted by Tilbury (1999) who examined cross-cultural friendships of New Zealand adults, similar conclusions were reached.”
Exposure to benevolent sexism and complementary gender stereotypes: consequences for specific and diffuse forms of system justification. (2005, background): “There is an aura of presumed consensus that often surrounds racial and other group attitudes, and this perceived social environment serves to maintain and increase prejudice (Crandall, 2002; Stangor, Sechrist, & Jost, 2001 ).”
How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking (2020, background): “A plethora of studies—of both correlational and experimental nature—has demonstrated that norms reflect on intergroup attitudes and behavior (e.g., Brauer & Er-rafiy, 2011; Crandall et al., 2002; Schlüter et al., 2013; Stangor et al., 2001).”
Shared Reality, System Justification, and the Relational Basis of Ideological Beliefs (2008, background): “Similarly, Stangor, Sechrist, and Jost (2001) demonstrated that racial beliefs are influenced by consensus information, such that college students’ stereotypes are bolstered when they learn that fellow students hold similar versus dissimilar beliefs.”
The role of social norm clarity in the influenced expression of prejudice over time (2007, background): “…in social psychology is prejudice, and a main thrust of this research has centered on attempts to reduce or eradicate people’s prejudices (e.g., Allport, 1954; Lowery, Hardin, & Sinclair, 2001; Oskamp, 2000; Rudman, Ashmore, & Gary, 2001; Stangor et al., 2001; Wittenbrink, Judd, & Park, 2001).”