Social Acceptability in the Measurement of Racial Attitudes
- 1 August 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 29 (1) , 17-18
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1971.29.1.17
Abstract
204 white Ss were asked to indicate how most college students felt about people with certain values. Results indicated there was less perceived social acceptance of negative racial attitudes among college students than of other values. However, when similar groups of white students were administered the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS) they responded relatively negatively to blacks. Thus, there is evidence for a difference between what white students feel are socially acceptable attitudes toward blacks and what they actually feel.Keywords
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