White Guilt and Racial Compensation : The Benetits and Limits of Self-Focus  

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Leach, Colin Wayne ; Iyer, Aarti ; Crosby, Faye J.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 29 no. 1 (2003), page 117-129.
Topik: compensation; racial compensation; white guilt; benefit; limit; self focus
Fulltext: 117PSPB291.pdf (115.86KB)

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In two studies, the authors investigated guilt as a response to group - based advantage. Consistent with its conceptualization as a self - focused emotion, white guilt was based in self - focised neliefs in racial inequality. Thus, guilt was associated with belief in white privilege (study 1) and resulted form seeing european americans as perpetrators of racial discrimination (study 2). Just as personal guilt is associated with efforts at restitution, white guilt was predictive of support for affirmative action programs aimed at compensating african americans. White guilt was not, however, predictive of support for noncompensatory efforts at promoting equality, such as affirmative action programs that increase opportunities (Study 2). In contrast, the other - focused emotion of group-based sympathy was a more general predictor of support for different affirmative action policies. Our findings demonstrate the benefits and limits of group - based guilt as a basis of support for social equality and highlight the value of understanding the specific emotions elicited in intergroup contexts.

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