Aversive Racism Theory

The main theory of the article

The main theory of this article is Aversive Racism. According to the theory, negative racial evaluations are realized by persistence interaction avoidance with other racial groups. Aversive racism theory covers the more subtle side of racism which is often expressed through ambivalent attitudes, expressions, and prejudices. The basis of this theory is based on research examining explicit and implicit racial attitudes of white people in relation to their behaviors in interracial interactions, both theoretically through other researcher 's work or research and a procedural research. The procedural research was conducted in a liberal arts college where a randomly selection of twenty-five female and fifteen male undergraduates was done from a poll of a hundred and forty-three potential participants and asked to participate in the twenty-item attitudes toward blacks scale research procedure (Dovidio J. F., 2002)

The specific questions addressed by the study

There are three main questions addressed by the study. These questions are; whether or not explicit prejudice primarily predicts

The dependent variable in this research study is the persistence interaction avoidance which is basically the response of the participants. The authors manipulated the measure of prejudice to represent the degree of participant response if they responded faster to negative words from the black stimuli than they did to the white stimuli (the black and white faces). The degrees were combined to the degree to which the participants responded faster to positive words from the same stimuli (Dovidio J. F., 2002). Therefore, the dependent variables were manipulated to show the degree of effect to the dependent variables, that is the implicit and explicit prejudice were manipulated to bring out the nature of the response from the