Despite social pressure for White Americans to be nonprejudiced, Black Americans still regularly experience discrimination. We argue that bias persists because although many White Americans espouse nonprejudiced beliefs, far fewer actively work to combat discrimination. Previous research on a newly developed scale of antiprejudice, or the belief that White people should proactively fight discrimination, indicates that higher levels of antiprejudice are associated increased proactive support among White people for multiple actions that would help put an end to discrimination. Drawing from research on prescriptive moral convictions (i.e., what people should do), we predicted that teaching White Americans four reasons why White people should be proactive in the fight against systemic racism would increase perceptions that White involvement is necessary in order for real change to occur and increase antiprejudiced beliefs. Results of a pilot study supported our predictions. Moreover, in a second study we replicated our results and extended them by demonstrating that our intervention not only increased perceptions about the necessity of White involvement and antiprejudice, it was also associated with a greater likelihood of volunteering for an equal rights organization. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Spring Semester 2018. / March 21, 2018. / Includes bibliographical references. / E. Ashby Plant, Professor Directing Dissertation; Patricia Y. Hightower, University Representative; Jon Maner, Committee Member; Paul Conway, Committee Member; Colleen Kelley, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_654733 |
| Contributors | Lacosse-Brannon, Jennifer (author), Plant, Ashby (professor directing dissertation), Hightower, Patricia Y. (university representative), Maner, Jon K. (committee member), Conway, Paul (committee member), Kelley, Colleen M. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Arts and Sciences (degree granting college), Department of Psychology (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, doctoral thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (67 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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