Wade C. Rowatt and Lewis M. Franklin — Christian Orthodoxy, Religious Fundamentalism, and Right-Wing Authoritarianism as Predictors of Implicit Racial Prejudice

11 published claims from this book.

• Explicit and implicit attitudes operate on different levels and need different measures.
• IAT response latency reveals implicit prejudice even absent self-reported bias
• Implicit prejudice may decline when people internalize inclusive religious teachings autonomously rather than authoritariously.
• Neither intrinsic nor social religion predicts measured implicit racial bias
• Orthodox Christian belief predicts less implicit prejudice once authoritarianism is controlled
• Right-wing authoritarianism predicts racial prejudice but religious fundamentalism does not once controls are applied.
• Self-reported religiosity may diverge from measures of implicit prejudice.
• The implicit association test measures bias via response latency on concept-sorting tasks.
• The modern racism subscale shows weak internal consistency at α = .48.
• When prejudice hides behind professed conviction, implicit measures expose it
• White participants show reliably slower reaction times on incongruent racial categorizations.