title: The joint effect of bias awareness and self-reported prejudice on intergroup anxiety and intentions for intergroup contact.
abstract: Two correlational studies investigated the joint effect of bias awareness-a new individual difference measure that assesses Whites' awareness and concern about their propensity to be biased-and prejudice on Whites' intergroup anxiety and intended intergroup contact. Using a community sample (Study 1), we found the predicted Bias Awareness × Prejudice interaction. Prejudice was more strongly related to interracial anxiety among those high (vs. low) in bias awareness. Study 2 investigated potential behavioral consequences in an important real world context: medical students' intentions for working primarily with minority patients. Study 2 replicated the Bias Awareness × Prejudice interaction and further demonstrated that interracial anxiety mediated medical students' intentions to work with minority populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: Sylvia P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology.
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Dovidio
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University.
authors.forename: Mary C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.affiliation: Division of Health Care Policy & Research, Health Sciences Research.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Ryn
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D001007:Anxiety / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups; D011287:Prejudice / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D044469:Racial Groups; D057566:Self Report; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*
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