Members of disadvantaged groups deny their own discrimination implicitly

Evidence

This is Crosby’s (1984) finding that members of disadvantaged groups, even though viewing other members of their own group as targets of discrimination, tend not to see themselves as having been so victimized. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 154

One example of self-positivity in judgments warrants mention here because of its special relevance to this article’s focus (in a section to follow) on stereotypes and prejudices. This is Crosby’s (1984) finding that members of disadvantaged groups, even though viewing other members of their own group as targets of discrimination, tend not to see themselves as having been so victimized. This phenomenon, which can be linked to just-world illusions (Lerner, 1980), has been confirmed in vari- ous samples in the United States (Crosby, Pufall, Snyder, O’Connell, & Whalen, 1989), Francophones in Quebec (Guimond & Dube-Simard, 1983), and Haitian and Indian immigrants in Canada (D. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition, 154

Categorization

• XREF: A key divergence point for the reading: implicit (non-professed) bias measures may NOT track this self/group asymmetry — the person denies personal victimization while acknowledging group-level discrimination, so implicit self-esteem and explicit group-attitude diverge. — connects to: Aversive racism pits sincere egalitarian values against unacknowledged anti-Black feelings. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 198; Implicit attitudes are past-experience traces not introspectively identified by the actor. — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 80; Disadvantaged groups accept stereotypes that sustain their own oppression. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 2911 (+9 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The self-vs-group discrimination asymmetry is a genuinely paradigmatic puzzle — whether implicit measures capture the denied personal dimension is exactly the tension this chapter raises and never resolves.
• QUESTION: Directly bears on the reading purpose: does an implicit measure of group identity versus self-identity capture this divergence between other-as-victim and self-as-not-victim?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Anthony G. Greenwald and Mahzarin R. Banaji, Implicit Social Cognition: Attitudes,…, 154

Related

• People minimize discrimination attributions for themselves while readily applying them to others (similarity 0.82)
• Disadvantaged group members often internalize negative stereotypes and favor outgroups in implicit attitudes. (similarity 0.80)
• Social identity theory cannot explain negative in-group stereotypes among the disadvantaged (similarity 0.80)
• Disadvantaged groups accept stereotypes that sustain their own oppression. (similarity 0.80)
• Disadvantaged group members internalize the same stereotypes advantaged groups hold (similarity 0.80)
• Victims of persecution develop distorting stereotypes that endanger their own survival chances (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Stigmatized groups deny self-hate explicitly yet show outgroup favoritism on implicit measures #corroborates (0.90)
• Large minorities of disadvantaged groups implicitly favor outgroups over their own #corroborates (0.88)
• Disadvantaged group members internalize the same stereotypes advantaged groups hold #expands (0.85) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1401
• Disadvantaged groups adopt negative self-stereotypes that preserve existing social arrangements #expands (0.85) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2867
• Disadvantaged groups accept stereotypes that sustain their own oppression. #corroborates (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2911
• Social identity theory cannot explain negative in-group stereotypes among the disadvantaged #corroborates (0.82) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2895
• Even disadvantaged group members internalize stereotypes that harm their own interests #expands (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2910
• Social identity theory underestimates how readily disadvantaged groups justify their own oppression #complicates (0.78) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 2961
• People minimize discrimination attributions for themselves while readily applying them to others #complicates (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 131