The Best Way to Measure Explicit Racial Attitudes Is to Ask About Them

Volume: 9, Issue: 8, Pages: 896 - 906
Published: Oct 4, 2017
Abstract
Direct assessments of explicit racial attitudes, such as reporting an overt preference for White versus Black people, may raise social desirability concerns and reduce measurement quality. As a result, researchers have developed more indirect self-report measures of explicit racial attitudes. While such measures dampen social desirability concerns, they may weaken measurement quality by assessing construct-irrelevant attitudes, thereby lowering...
Paper Details
Title
The Best Way to Measure Explicit Racial Attitudes Is to Ask About Them
Published Date
Oct 4, 2017
Volume
9
Issue
8
Pages
896 - 906
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