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Reversing the Error: The Role of Causal Attributions in Inhibiting Prejudice Stephen Foster, Mauricio Carvallo, & William Stern University of Oklahoma Materials Symbolic Racism. In order to separate participants into groups of high vs. low prejudice, Sears’ (2002) symbolic racism scale was utilized. Participants were told to answer a variety of questions (i.e. “Over the past few years, blacks have gotten more economically than they deserve”) on a 7-point Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 7 (Strongly Agree), with higher scores indicating higher levels of prejudice Attribution Scale. A situational attribution score was captured utilizing the item, “Overall, to what extent was the officer responsible for what happened to the driver?”; this item was intended to measure how much situational factors would have justified the officer to behave in such a manner. Dispositional attribution was captured utilizing the item, “How responsible was the driver for the outcome of this situation?”; this item was intended to measure how much the driver’s disposition as an individual was responsible for the outcome of the scenario. Each of these questions were answered on a scale from 1 (Not at All) to 7 (Completely), with higher scores indicating higher situational or dispositional attribution, respectively. However, analyses were performed utilizing a difference score (dispositional– situational), so that lower scores indicated a higher level of situational attribution. Other Measures. A series of other measures were included to replicate previous findings in the field and to mask participants from making inferences about the nature of the study including Pratto et al.’s (1994) Social Dominance Orientation Scale, a modified 13-item Right-Wing Authoritarianism Scale (Rattazzi, Bobbio, & Canova, 2007), Caccioppo and Petty’s (1982) Need for Cognition Scale, and other filler items. Furthermore, we asked participants to what extent they believed the officer was justified to use physical force as well as draw their weapon, so as to capture support for the use of physical force. Descriptive Statistics Symbolic Racism x Condition Introduction Given that many self-proclaimed “unprejudiced” Americans still hold an implicit preference for whites over blacks (Greenwald, McGee, & Schwartz, 1998), we continue to attempt to explain the way in which modern racist beliefs are expressed and inhibited. While those low and high in prejudice both hold knowledge of racial stereotypes, it is those low in prejudice who inhibit these stereotypes and instead express views that reflect equality (Devine, 1989). One possible mechanism behind this effect may lie in the attributions one makes in racially-charged scenarios. While it has been shown that people tend to make more dispositional as opposed to situational attributions (i.e. the Fundamental Attribution Error) in criminal trials (Follett & Hess, 2002), regarding the Rodney King beating (Pope & Meyer, 1999), and regarding Magic Johnson’s AIDs diagnosis (Power, Murphy, & Coover, 1996), it is possible that those low in prejudice inhibit racist attitudes by managing the attributions they make in scenarios where their non-prejudicial worldview has been engaged. Given the recent rise in media coverage of racially-charged police aggression, we intended to test whether low-prejudice participants would manage their attributions in a police aggression scenario with similar racial undertones. Overview of the Research The current study was designed to explore one mechanism through which low-prejudice individuals are able to inhibit prejudicial thoughts; the management of causal attributions in certain scenarios. We hypothesized that low-prejudice participants would make more situational attributions in comparison to dispositional attributions in a racially-charged police aggression scenario. Results of the study suggest that low-prejudice participants reverse the fundamental attribution error and tend to take situational factors into account. Furthermore, this reversal predicts less support for the police’s use of physical force in this scenario. Participants Participants were 271 undergraduate psychology students (70% Caucasian, 165 females) selected from the undergraduate research participation pool. Participants were collected from the undergraduate research pool, and all measures were distributed through a Qualtrics survey presented on the SONA research participation website. Procedure Participants who signed up for the study were directed to the study link through the SONA psychological research website. Upon agreeing to the terms of the informed consent, participants were then directed to the series of questionnaires contained in the study. By means of the Qualtrics website, participants were randomly distributed between the experimental condition and the control condition. The sole difference between these two conditions was the race of the characters in the vignette participants would read. The experimental condition received the police aggression article involving a white officer and a black driver, while the control condition received an identical police aggression article with a black police officer and a white driver. Participants then filled out a set of questions regarding attributions of blame in regard to the news article they had just finished reading. Results: Regression Analyses Attributions x SR Group NOTE: Attributions = Dispositional – Situational; lower scores = more situational attributions A multiple regression analysis was conducted to examine if symbolic racism (SR) levels predict attributions in the police aggression scenarios. The analysis revealed a significant main effect of symbolic racism (β = 0.44, p < .001) and the predicted Condition X Symbolic Racism interaction (β = -0.19, p < .01). Results indicate that the effect is driven by the high level of situational attribution low-prejudice participants make (see Figure above). Furthermore, this balance of situational and dispositional attributions predicts support for use of physical force (β = 0.37, p < .001) and support for the officer drawing their weapon (β = 0.34, p < .001) in these scenarios, above and beyond levels of symbolic racism. Discussion The results of this research support the view that in relatively ambiguous police aggression scenarios with a racial component, those low in prejudice activate non-prejudicial attitudes and take into greater account situational factors as opposed to merely attributing the outcome to dispositional factors. On the other hand, it appears those high in prejudice fail to take into account situational factors regardless of the racial makeup of the actors in a given scenario. These findings indicate that attribution management is perhaps one mechanism in which a person may inhibit deeply engrained racial stereotypes. References References available from PI at Stephen.D.Foster-1@ou.edu