Racial appeals do not generally amplify the effect of racial attitudes on welfare support

Evidence

In separate models, we interacted levels of reported (1) racial resentment and (2) explicit racial prejudice with terms for the two experimental conditions containing racial appeals to predict participants’ welfare support. Results of these two models show no evidence that implicit or explicit racial appeals heighten the influence of racial dispositions on participants’ evaluations of welfare. As shown in Table 1, none of the interactions between racial attitudes and experimental condition are statistically significant. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 54

Categorization

• XREF: On its face it seems to undercut the standard priming logic the reader is tracking — racial appeals did not sharpen the racial basis of welfare judgment overall, only among specific ideological subgroups. — connects to: Explicit racial appeals fail to shift welfare support whereas implicit racial cues succeed. — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 78; Racial attitudes influence white Americans’ policy and candidate preferences beyond ideology — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3600; Racial attitudes form several distinct dimensions rather than one unitary prejudice — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3430 (+1 more)

Related

• Explicit racial appeals fail to shift welfare support whereas implicit racial cues succeed. (similarity 0.90)
• Implicit racial appeals mobilize resentment among liberals as well as conservatives (similarity 0.87)
• Subtly racialized appeals mobilize high-resentment liberals but leave moderates and conservatives unmoved. (similarity 0.87)
• Implicit racial appeals drive welfare opposition through reduced deservingness perceptions (similarity 0.85)
• Implicit racial appeals produce an opposite-of-predicted backfire effect among low-resentment moderates. (similarity 0.85)
• Explicit and implicit racial cues boost racial resentment equally in whites (similarity 0.84)
• Improved racial attitudes do not translate into support for remedial policies (similarity 0.83)
• Racial appeals intensify racial-attitude influence on gun attitudes among liberals, not conservatives. (similarity 0.83)
• Liberal whites’ racial resentment is harnessed by racial appeals across ideologically opposed policy domains. (similarity 0.82)
• Racial attitudes form several distinct dimensions rather than one unitary prejudice (similarity 0.82)
• Dog-whistle appeals mobilize racially resentful white liberals, not conservatives (similarity 0.82)
• Implicit racial appeals boosted liberal support for gun control (similarity 0.82)
• White awareness of racial inequality does not translate into support for remedies (similarity 0.81)
• Prior exposure to racialized elite cues hardens opposite positions against novel racial appeals. (similarity 0.79)
• Racial perceptions drive political passions independent of policy effectiveness (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Explicit racial appeals fail to shift welfare support whereas implicit racial cues succeed. #contradicts (0.95) — Rachel Wetts and Robb Willer, Who Is Called by the Dog Whistle?…, 78
• Racial attitudes influence white Americans’ policy and candidate preferences beyond ideology #complicates (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3600
• Racial attitudes form several distinct dimensions rather than one unitary prejudice #qualifies (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3430