This project examined the effects of threat perceptions and group empathy on racial outgroup attitudes. The relationship between threat perception and increased racial prejudice has been well established within the literature, but the effect of group empathy within this dynamic has been largely undocumented. The following study utilizes data from the American National Election Study 2020 Time Series to analyze racial outgroup attitudes among subsamples of Blacks (n = 726), Hispanics (n = 762), and Whites (n = 5,962). Along with threat perception, group empathy was found to be a salient predictor of outgroup attitudes. These results suggest that an effective technique to reduce negative outgroup attitudes would aim to reduce perceptions of outgroups as threatening and increase group empathy.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1987118 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Larrison, KayLynn Marie |
| Contributors | Painter, Matthew, Kwon, Ronald, Scarborough, William |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Larrison, KayLynn Marie, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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