Support for Native-Themed Mascots and Opposition to Political Correctness

IF 4 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI:10.1177/13684302221106924

Mason D. Burns, E. Granz, K. Williams

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Abstract

Despite the well-documented harmful effects of Native-themed mascots, Native-themed mascots have many supporters who decry the politically correct efforts to remove these mascots. Although ostensibly unrelated to race/racism, we reasoned that invoking anti-PC attitudes allow prejudiced people to indirectly support Native-themed mascots while minimizing the appearance of being biased. Three studies (N = 587) found that anti-Native bias predicted anti-PC attitudes and, in turn, Native-themed mascot support. In Studies 2 and 3, participants varying in anti-PC attitudes considered a university changing their Native-themed mascot for PC or non-PC reasons. Anti-PC attitudes predicted opposition to changing Native-themed mascots in both conditions. However, the effect of anti-PC attitudes was stronger in the PC condition where social justice norms were salient. These results suggest that, for many, anti-PC attitudes reflect more than just opposition to political correctness and are used by prejudiced people to indirectly defend controversial mascots without appearing prejudiced.

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支持本土主题的吉祥物，反对政治正确

尽管有充分的证据表明，本土主题的吉祥物有有害的影响，但本土主题的吉祥物有许多支持者，他们谴责移除这些吉祥物的政治正确努力。虽然表面上与种族/种族主义无关，但我们认为，援引反pc态度可以让有偏见的人间接支持本土主题的吉祥物，同时最大限度地减少偏见的外观。三项研究(N = 587)发现，反本土偏见预测了反pc态度，进而预测了本土主题的吉祥物支持。在研究2和3中，持不同反PC态度的参与者认为一所大学出于PC或非PC的原因改变了他们的本土主题吉祥物。在这两种情况下，反对pc的态度预示着对改变本土主题吉祥物的反对。然而，在社会公正规范显著的社会规范条件下，反政治态度的影响更强。这些结果表明，对许多人来说，反pc态度反映的不仅仅是对政治正确的反对，而且被有偏见的人用来间接地为有争议的吉祥物辩护，而不会显得有偏见。

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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Group Processes & Intergroup Relations is a scientific social psychology journal dedicated to research on social psychological processes within and between groups. It provides a forum for and is aimed at researchers and students in social psychology and related disciples (e.g., organizational and management sciences, political science, sociology, language and communication, cross cultural psychology, international relations) that have a scientific interest in the social psychology of human groups. The journal has an extensive editorial team that includes many if not most of the leading scholars in social psychology of group processes and intergroup relations from around the world.