Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of Prejudice_ Fifty Years after Allport
23 published claims from this book.
- Conservative strategists deliberately coded racial appeals to evade egalitarian norms
- Dog whistles activate latent racial prejudice while evading egalitarian norms
- Dog-whistle appeals mobilize racially resentful white liberals, not conservatives
- Dog-whistle effects may cut opposite ways across ideology
- Dog-whistle theory may be outdated because overt racial prejudice is now socially acceptable.
- Explicit and implicit racial cues boost racial resentment equally in whites
- Explicit racial appeals fail to shift welfare support whereas implicit racial cues succeed.
- Exposing the racial subtext of coded messages switches White voters against them.
- Gun control is racialized such that racial resentment decreases support for it.
- Implicit racial appeals boosted liberal support for gun control
- Implicit racial appeals drive welfare opposition through reduced deservingness perceptions
- Implicit racial appeals mobilize resentment among liberals as well as conservatives
- Implicit racial appeals produce an opposite-of-predicted backfire effect among low-resentment moderates.
- Liberal whites’ racial resentment is harnessed by racial appeals across ideologically opposed policy domains.
- Null racial-priming results may reflect weak messages rather than real effects.
- Prior exposure to racialized elite cues hardens opposite positions against novel racial appeals.
- Racial appeals do not generally amplify the effect of racial attitudes on welfare support
- Racial appeals intensify racial-attitude influence on gun attitudes among liberals, not conservatives.
- Racial resentment predicts switching to Trump mainly among white liberals.
- Racially encoded messages backfire among moderates high in racial resentment.
- Racially resentful white liberals number about ten million and may be decisive voters.
- Subtly racialized appeals mobilize high-resentment liberals but leave moderates and conservatives unmoved.
- White liberals high in racial resentment switched to Trump at probabilities above fifty percent.