Internal motivation to respond without prejudice fosters respectful responses in interracial interactions.

Jennifer LaCosse; E. Ashby Plant

doi:10.1037/pspi0000219

Internal motivation to respond without prejudice fosters respectful responses in interracial interactions.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ◽

10.1037/pspi0000219 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 119 (5) ◽

pp. 1037-1056 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jennifer LaCosse ◽

E. Ashby Plant

Keyword(s):

Interracial Interactions ◽

Internal Motivation

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Supplemental Material for Internal Motivation to Respond Without Prejudice Fosters Respectful Responses in Interracial Interactions

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ◽

10.1037/pspi0000219.supp ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Interracial Interactions ◽

Internal Motivation

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Minority Perceptions of Whites’ Motives for Responding Without Prejudice

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin ◽

10.1177/0146167213475367 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 401-414 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Brenda Major ◽

Pamela J. Sawyer ◽

Jonathan W. Kunstman

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Minority ◽

Ethnic Minorities ◽

Predictive Validity ◽

Minority Group ◽

Interracial Interactions ◽

Internal Motivation ◽

Group Members ◽

Motivation Scale ◽

Racial Ethnic

Whites’ nonprejudiced behavior toward racial/ethnic minorities can be attributionally ambiguous for perceivers, who may wonder whether the behavior was motivated by a genuine internal commitment to egalitarianism or was externally motivated by desires to avoid appearing prejudiced to others. This article reports the development of a scale that measures perceptions of Whites’ internal and external motives for avoiding prejudice (Perceived Internal Motivation Scale/Perceived External Motivation Scale [PIMS/PEMS]) and tests of its internal, test–retest, discriminant, convergent, and predictive validity among ethnic minority perceivers. Minorities perceived Whites as having internal and external motives for nonprejudiced behavior that were theoretically consistent with but distinct from established measures of minority-group members’ concerns in interracial interactions. Tests of the predictive validity of PIMS/PEMS showed that when a White evaluator praised the mediocre essay of a minority target, minorities who were high PEMS and low PIMS were most likely to regard the feedback as inauthentic and derogate the quality of the essay.

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Smokers’ (Dis)satisfaction, Persuasive Constraint, and Influence of Expert and Non-Expert Sources

Swiss Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1024/1421-0185.65.1.7 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 65 (1) ◽

pp. 7-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor ◽

Gabriel Mugny ◽

Federica Invernizzi

Keyword(s):

Intention To Quit ◽

Motivation To Change ◽

Internal Motivation ◽

Quit Smoking ◽

External Constraint ◽

Source Study ◽

Expert Sources

The present research tested the hypothesis that an internal motivation to change is elaborated as an external constraint and is less predictive of change when the source is expert than when it is non-expert. In two studies, smokers were categorized as either dissatisfied or moderately satisfied according to their degree of dissatisfaction with their image as smokers (i.e., internal motivation to change). They were then exposed to an antismoking argument attributed either to an expert or to a non-expert source. Compared to moderately satisfied smokers, dissatisfied smokers perceived the source as making less effort to convince them (Study 1, N = 43), and as being less disrespectful (Study 2, N = 81), but this pattern was significant only for the non-expert source. Study 2 also showed that experts had more influence on intention to quit smoking among moderately satisfied smokers, whereas non-experts had more influence among dissatisfied smokers.

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I Want to Be Like You

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000090 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 115-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Christina Matschke ◽

Kai Sassenberg

Keyword(s):

Social Identity ◽

Identity Development ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Active Role ◽

Social Identification ◽

Social Self ◽

Approach And Avoidance ◽

Internal Motivation ◽

Avoidance Strategies ◽

Social Identity Development

Entering a new group provides the potential of forming a new social identity. Starting from self-regulation models, we propose that goals (e.g., internal motivation to enter the group), strategies (e.g., approach and avoidance strategies), and events (e.g., the group’s response) affect the development of the social self. In two studies we manipulated the group’s response (acceptance vs. rejection) and assessed internal motivation as well as approach and avoidance strategies. It was expected, and we found, that when newcomers are accepted, their use of approach strategies (but not avoidance strategies) facilitates social identification. In line with self-completion theory, for highly internally motivated individuals approach strategies facilitated social identification even upon rejection. The results underline the active role of newcomers in their social identity development.

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