TY - JOUR
T1 - Variables in interracial aggression
T2 - Exposure to aggressive interracial interactions
AU - Donnerstein, Marcia
AU - Donnerstein, Edward
PY - 1976/10
Y1 - 1976/10
N2 - An experiment employing 90 white male college students examined the influence of observing certain aggressive black-white interactions on subsequent interracial aggression. Before aggressing against a black target themselves, Ss were exposed to a white person aggressing against a black person using high, low, or unspecified electric shocks, and to the black person counteraggressing using one of the same three response patterns. Prior to statistical analysis, two orthogonal variates were identified: direct aggression and indirect aggression. It was found that less direct aggression was delivered to a black target when Ss witnessed a white person delivering low level shocks to a black than when Ss witnessed unspecified white behavior. Except for a decrement in direct aggression produced when Ss viewed unspecified shocking by a white and low shocking by a black, Ss' aggression was not influenced by black counteraggression. Results are discussed in terms of the usefulness of observational experience in modifying interracial aggression.
AB - An experiment employing 90 white male college students examined the influence of observing certain aggressive black-white interactions on subsequent interracial aggression. Before aggressing against a black target themselves, Ss were exposed to a white person aggressing against a black person using high, low, or unspecified electric shocks, and to the black person counteraggressing using one of the same three response patterns. Prior to statistical analysis, two orthogonal variates were identified: direct aggression and indirect aggression. It was found that less direct aggression was delivered to a black target when Ss witnessed a white person delivering low level shocks to a black than when Ss witnessed unspecified white behavior. Except for a decrement in direct aggression produced when Ss viewed unspecified shocking by a white and low shocking by a black, Ss' aggression was not influenced by black counteraggression. Results are discussed in terms of the usefulness of observational experience in modifying interracial aggression.
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U2 - 10.1080/00224545.1976.9711913
DO - 10.1080/00224545.1976.9711913
M3 - Article
C2 - 1003935
AN - SCOPUS:0017014311
SN - 0022-4545
VL - 100
SP - 111
EP - 121
JO - Journal of Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Social Psychology
IS - 1
ER -