White listeners detect bias concealed in egalitarian self-claims.

Evidence

Bivariate correlations revealed that perceivers’ guess of targets’ MRS was significantly correlated (r = 0.142, p = .023) with targets’ actual MRS. Perceivers’ guess of targets’ IMS was marginally significantly correlated (r = 0.115, p = .067) with targets’ actual IMS. Thus, White American perceivers detected the racial attitudes underlying White targets’ claims of egalitarianism. — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created equal, 33

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s question of whether professed egalitarian conviction predicts actual measured bias — here perceivers actually infer real prejudice from the self-presentation. — connects to: Perceivers infer others’ hidden prejudice from egalitarian claims regardless of liking — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created…, 86; Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created…, 87; Implicit signals like gasps can mark feminism as a white private cult — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 210 (+1 more)
• QUESTION: The effect sizes are small (r ~ 0.14). Worth chasing: does this detection capability scale up, or does it only work at the margins?

Related

• Perceivers infer others’ hidden prejudice from egalitarian claims regardless of liking (similarity 0.88)
• Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests (similarity 0.86)
• Egalitarian statements can transmit prejudice between group members (similarity 0.82)
• Egalitarian self-presentation conceals the true relationship between prejudice and bias (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests #exemplifies (0.90) — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created equal, 87
• Perceivers infer others’ hidden prejudice from egalitarian claims regardless of liking #exemplifies (0.88) — Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown, Not all egalitarianism is created equal, 86