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Philpot, Tasha. and White, Ismail. "Uncensored: Reducing Social Desirability in the Expression of Racial Attitudes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41544_index.html>

Philpot, T. S. and White, I. K. , 2005-09-01 "Uncensored: Reducing Social Desirability in the Expression of Racial Attitudes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41544_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Since the 1960s, it has become taboo to discuss race and racism and to convey ideas that do not conform to equality among all people. As a result, support for African American candidates and policies design to ameliorate inequality is systematically over-estimated. While scholars have studied the presence and sources of social desirability (the need to conform to expected norms) with respect to the expression of public opinion, most of this discussion has been confined to methodological issues related to survey design and implementation. Social desirability and the unwillingness to express “true” attitudes plague pubic opinion absent of survey research, especially when it comes to articulating attitudes about race. How then can we gain a more realistic assessment of the extent to which race still matters beyond the manipulation of the survey environment? We argue that individuals will be more willing to express their true racial attitudes when their beliefs have been validated by an external source. We also argue that the willingness to express these beliefs will be greater when the racial attitudes of the individual have been validated by an African American. Previous studies have shown that black conservatives are overrepresented as “experts” in the news media. Thus, the media provide the perfect opportunity to examine the research question because it is an institution to which most Americans are exposed. Therefore, this study experimentally tests whether encountering a black conservative espousing a racially conservative idea in the media causes an individual to be more likely to express racially conservative attitudes. This study allows us to explore the dynamics and boundaries of social desirability using an example individual’s encounter in everyday life. Moreover, this study illustrates the role the media play in enabling individuals to express their true beliefs.

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