Prejudice correlates with religion and race only on some measures of Islamophobia

Evidence

Religious identity and race were two demographic variables expected to correlate with the IS. Research has shown that Christians and Whites tend to hold stronger prejudicial attitudes than their non-Christian (Rowatt et al., 2005) and non-White counterparts (Ponterotto et al., 1995). However, when assessing Islamophobia, Lee et al. (2009) discovered that this pattern only held for the affective–behavioral and not the cognitive facet of Islamophobia. — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 37

The results of Study 3 provide evidence for the IS’s incremental validity. Similar to other psychology of religion measures, such as the ASPIRES (Piedmont, 2005), the IS was able to predict 4% additional variance beyond established measures of religion and prejudice and other covariates, which is considered a reasonable contribution when evaluating incremental validity (Hunsley & Meyer, 2003). — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims, 140

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to scholarship on Islamophobia and the limits of generalizing majority-group prejudice findings to specific out-groups; also overlaps with The Reluctant Fundamentalist’s interest in how anti-Muslim sentiment operates cognitively versus affectively.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: why do people hold anti-Muslim beliefs but not report them feelingly — a piece on cognitive/affective splits in modern prejudice measurement.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims: Psychometric…, 37; Sherman A. Lee, Chelsea A. Reid, Stephen D. Short, Jeffrey A. Gibbons, Ruth Yeh, and Matthew L. Campbell, Fear of Muslims: Psychometric…, 140