Race and belief: An open and shut case.

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In a test of Rokeach's contention that prejudice is the result of perceived dissimilarity of belief systems, 44 white 9th-graders completed a "teen-age social distance scale" for 4 "stimulus teen-agers," presented as, respectively, white or Negro, and like or unlike the respondent in values, in relation to Ss' own responses 2 mo. earlier. Ss also indicated how friendly they would feel toward each. When information was provided on values, similarity of belief accounted for much more variance than the race effect, which was also significant; other data indicate a strong race effect in the absence of such information. Ss' earlier responses to an otherwise undescribed "Negro teen-ager" correlated substantially with their responses to an unlike but not to a like Negro teen-ager. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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