title: Will the "real" American please stand up? The effect of implicit national prototypes on discriminatory behavior and judgments.
abstract: Three studies tested whether implicit prototypes about who is authentically American predict discriminatory behavior and judgments against Americans of non-European descent. These studies identified specific contexts in which discrimination is more versus less likely to occur, the underlying mechanism driving it, and moderators of such discrimination. Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated that the more participants held implicit beliefs that the prototypical American is White, the less willing they were to hire qualified Asian Americans in national security jobs; however, this relation did not hold in identical corporate jobs where national security was irrelevant. The implicit belief-behavior link was mediated by doubts about Asian Americans' national loyalty. Study 3 demonstrated a similar effect in a different domain: The more participants harbored race-based national prototypes, the more negatively they evaluated an immigration policy proposed by an Asian American but not a White policy writer. Political conservatism magnified this effect because of greater concerns about the national loyalty of Asian Americans.
authors: 626 Tobin Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. kumar@psych.umass.edu
authors: Kumar
authors: K
authors: Yogeeswaran
authors: Nilanjana
authors: N
authors: Dasgupta
mesh_terms: D001213:Asian; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups; D010560:Personnel Selection; D011057:Politics; D011287:Prejudice; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012637:Security Measures; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology