TY - JOUR
T1 - When Prejudice Does not Pay
T2 - Effects of Interracial Contact on Executive Function
AU - Richeson, Jennifer A.
AU - Shelton, J. Nicole
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a Burke award and a Rockefeller Center Fellowship from Dartmouth College.
Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/5
Y1 - 2003/5
N2 - This study examined the influence of interracial interaction on the cognitive functioning of members of a dominant racial group. White participants had a brief interaction with either a White or a Black confederate, and then completed an ostensibly unrelated Stroop colornaming test. Prior to the interaction, participants ' racial attitudes regarding Whites and Blacks were measured via the Implicit Association Test. Racial attitudes were predictive of impairment on the Stroop test for individuals who participated in interracial interactions, but not for those who participated in same-race interactions. The results are consistent with recently proposed resource models of self-regulation and executive control in that interracial interaction, a particularly taxing exercise of self-regulation for highly prejudiced individuals, negatively affected performance on a subsequent, yet unrelated, test of executive function.
AB - This study examined the influence of interracial interaction on the cognitive functioning of members of a dominant racial group. White participants had a brief interaction with either a White or a Black confederate, and then completed an ostensibly unrelated Stroop colornaming test. Prior to the interaction, participants ' racial attitudes regarding Whites and Blacks were measured via the Implicit Association Test. Racial attitudes were predictive of impairment on the Stroop test for individuals who participated in interracial interactions, but not for those who participated in same-race interactions. The results are consistent with recently proposed resource models of self-regulation and executive control in that interracial interaction, a particularly taxing exercise of self-regulation for highly prejudiced individuals, negatively affected performance on a subsequent, yet unrelated, test of executive function.
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-9280.03437
DO - 10.1111/1467-9280.03437
M3 - Article
C2 - 12741756
AN - SCOPUS:0042278585
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 14
SP - 287
EP - 290
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 3
ER -