Egalitarian statements can transmit prejudice between group members

Evidence

Finally, we tested whether exposing a White American perceiver to the egalitarian statements of a racial ingroup member communicates prejudice in an epidemiological sense. Specifically, we tested whether exposure to targets with higher, versus lower, underlying prejudice would cause perceivers to express more prejudiced racial attitudes. — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created equal, 63

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instances the reader’s question of whether egalitarian/professed conviction backfires — egalitarian avowals function as a vector transmitting the speaker’s underlying prejudice. — connects to: People alternately vacillate between egalitarian values and prejudiced beliefs — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2096; People alternate between egalitarian and prejudiced stances depending on what a situation makes salient; Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created…, 87 (+3 more)
• ADDENDUM: Supplementary mechanism for the reader’s backfire research thread: exposure to avowed-egalitarian ingroup members shifts the perceiver’s own expressed racial attitudes.

Related

• Perceivers infer others’ hidden prejudice from egalitarian claims regardless of liking (similarity 0.90)
• Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests (similarity 0.89)
• White listeners detect bias concealed in egalitarian self-claims. (similarity 0.82)
• Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown — Not all egalitarianism is created equal Claims of nonprejudice inadvertently communicate prejudice between ingroup members (similarity 0.81)
• Individual-difference theories cannot explain how prejudice reproduces as collective ideology (similarity 0.79)
• People alternately vacillate between egalitarian values and prejudiced beliefs (similarity 0.79)
• Egalitarian self-presentation conceals the true relationship between prejudice and bias (similarity 0.79)
• Whether perceived group differences are accurate remains an open research question (similarity 0.78)
• Prejudice magnifies real group differences, not imagined ones (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Perceivers infer others’ hidden prejudice from egalitarian claims regardless of liking #corroborates (0.90) — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created equal, 86
• Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests #corroborates (0.85) — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created equal, 87
• People alternate between egalitarian and prejudiced stances depending on what a situation makes salient #expands (0.80)
• People alternately vacillate between egalitarian values and prejudiced beliefs #expands (0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2096
• Prejudice can operate as a social norm internal to a group #expands (0.75) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1901