Internal and external motivations to avoid prejudice are independent dimensions

Evidence

Plant and Devine (1998), for example, showed that people vary in the extent to which they are motivated to respond without prejudice for internal compared with external reasons. Further, internal motives to respond without prejudice are strongly and negatively correlated with self-report measures of prejudice, whereas external motives are much less correlated with selfreported prejudice (and neither measure correlates strongly with general measures of self-presentation or social evaluation). Interestingly, the internal and external motive measures are largely independent; that is, people can be motivated to respond without prejudice for primarily internal reasons, primarily external reasons, both reasons, or simply be unmotivated. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2122

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the intrinsic-vs-extrinsic motivation distinctions in self-determination theory and in the crafting chapters on authenticity.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2122