Prejudice targets show self-hate only on implicit, not explicit, measures

Evidence

Allport’s idea that targets of prejudice display self-hate has not been supported by studies using explicit (self-report) measures of either personal or collective self-esteem (e.g., Crocker & Major, 1989). However, on implicit measures (i.e., measures not under volitional control), members of low-status groups sometimes evaluate higher-status outgroups more favorably than their own group (e.g., Rudman, Feinberg, & Fairchild, 2002). Moreover, even when outgroup favoritism is not observed, members of lowstatus groups routinely show considerably less automatic ingroup bias, compared with high-status group members, suggesting that societal evaluations can influence people’s implicit cognitive systems (e. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 960

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to system justification theory and to work on implicit bias — parallels Jost’s system justification from the reader’s knowledge of motivated social cognition. — connects to: Implicit prejudice measures are not clearly more valid than survey measures — Christopher Tarman and David O. Sears, The Conceptualization and Measurement…, 223
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: do implicit self-hate measures predict real-world behavior more than explicit self-esteem does, or are they largely epiphenomenal?