Explicit racial appeals fail to shift welfare support whereas implicit racial cues succeed.

Evidence

Turning to the effect of the explicit racial appeal, we find some evidence that explicit racial appeals also increase the effect of prior racial attitudes on liberals’ welfare support, but results here are not statistically significant. As shown in Figure 1, the nature of the interaction between liberalism, racial resentment, and the explicit racial appeal condition is similar to that of the implicit racial appeal condition. However, this effect is not significant (p = .46). That this result does not approach statistical significance, while the corresponding interaction for the implicit racial appeal condition is significant, is surprising given the apparently similar effects of these racial appeals among liberals high in racial resentment. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 78

Categorization

• QUESTION: Why would explicit and implicit racial cues diverge so sharply while appearing so similar in effect? The moderateness baseline category explanation warrants chasing.
• XREF: connects to: Racial appeals do not generally amplify the effect of racial attitudes on welfare support — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 54; Subtly racialized appeals mobilize high-resentment liberals but leave moderates and conservatives unmoved. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 77; Implicit racial appeals drive welfare opposition through reduced deservingness perceptions — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 168 (+6 more)

Related

• Implicit racial appeals mobilize resentment among liberals as well as conservatives (similarity 0.91)
• Racial appeals do not generally amplify the effect of racial attitudes on welfare support (similarity 0.90)
• Subtly racialized appeals mobilize high-resentment liberals but leave moderates and conservatives unmoved. (similarity 0.90)
• Implicit racial appeals produce an opposite-of-predicted backfire effect among low-resentment moderates. (similarity 0.89)
• Implicit racial appeals drive welfare opposition through reduced deservingness perceptions (similarity 0.88)
• Explicit and implicit racial cues boost racial resentment equally in whites (similarity 0.86)
• Prior exposure to racialized elite cues hardens opposite positions against novel racial appeals. (similarity 0.82)
• White awareness of racial inequality does not translate into support for remedies (similarity 0.82)
• Improved racial attitudes do not translate into support for remedial policies (similarity 0.82)
• Racial appeals intensify racial-attitude influence on gun attitudes among liberals, not conservatives. (similarity 0.81)
• Liberal whites’ racial resentment is harnessed by racial appeals across ideologically opposed policy domains. (similarity 0.81)
• Dog-whistle appeals mobilize racially resentful white liberals, not conservatives (similarity 0.81)
• Implicit racial appeals boosted liberal support for gun control (similarity 0.80)
• Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer — Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle? Experimental Evidence That Racial Resentment and Political Ideology Condition Responses to Racially Encoded Messages (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Implicit racial appeals drive welfare opposition through reduced deservingness perceptions #expands (0.92) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 168
• Explicit and implicit racial cues boost racial resentment equally in whites #contradicts (0.90) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 24
• Improved racial attitudes do not translate into support for remedial policies #corroborates (0.82) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 161
• Prior exposure to racialized elite cues hardens opposite positions against novel racial appeals. #corroborates (0.80) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 182
• White awareness of racial inequality does not translate into support for remedies #corroborates (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3352
• Consciously egalitarian values fail to prevent racially disparate behavior #corroborates (0.78)
• Overt racism has been replaced by subtle implicit bias #qualifies (0.72) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 21