An Explanation of Racial Attitudes Utilizing Intergroup Threat Theory and Group Empathy Theory
Description:
This project examined the effects of threat perceptions and group empathy on racial outgroup attitudes. The relationship between threat perception and increased racial prejudice has been well established within the literature, but the effect of group empathy within this dynamic has been largely undocumented. The following study utilizes data from the American National Election Study 2020 Time Series to analyze racial outgroup attitudes among subsamples of Blacks (n = 726), Hispanics (n = 762), …
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Date:
August 2022
Creator:
Larrison, KayLynn Marie