title: Blacks' Death Rate Due to Circulatory Diseases Is Positively Related to Whites' Explicit Racial Bias.
abstract: Perceptions of racial bias have been linked to poorer circulatory health among Blacks compared with Whites. However, little is known about whether Whites' actual racial bias contributes to this racial disparity in health. We compiled racial-bias data from 1,391,632 Whites and examined whether racial bias in a given county predicted Black-White disparities in circulatory-disease risk (access to health care, diagnosis of a circulatory disease; Study 1) and circulatory-disease-related death rate (Study 2) in the same county. Results revealed that in counties where Whites reported greater racial bias, Blacks (but not Whites) reported decreased access to health care (Study 1). Furthermore, in counties where Whites reported greater racial bias, both Blacks and Whites showed increased death rates due to circulatory diseases, but this relationship was stronger for Blacks than for Whites (Study 2). These results indicate that racial disparities in risk of circulatory disease and in circulatory-disease-related death rate are more pronounced in communities where Whites harbor more explicit racial bias.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
authors.forename: Jordan B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Leitner
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Psychology, Ryerson University.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hehman
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
authors.forename: Ozlem
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ayduk
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley.
authors.forename: Rodolfo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mendoza-Denton
mesh_terms: D044383:Black People / Q000523:psychology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000401:mortality; D002319:Cardiovascular System / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009026:Mortality / Q000208:ethnology*; D011287:Prejudice / Q000523:psychology; D063505:Racism / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology; D001741:Black or African American
keywords: health; open data; open materials; prejudice; racial and ethnic attitudes and relations; sociocultural factors