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Interethnic Interactions: Expectancies, Emotions, and Behavioral Intentions

Florida State University, plant{at}psy.fsu.edu

David A. Butz

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Margarita Tartakovsky

Texas A & M University

Two studies examine Hispanic and non-Hispanic White people's responses to interethnic interactions. Consistent with previous findings regarding White/Black interactions, participants who had negative expectations about intergroup interactions reported more anger and anxiety about interethnic interactions. These negative emotional responses, in turn, were associated with negative behavioral intentions such as the desire to avoid interethnic interactions and the externalization of blame if an interethnic interaction did not go well. Across the studies, White participants who were angry about interethnic interactions wanted to avoid these interactions, whereas anxiety was the key predictor of avoidance for the Hispanic participants. Results are discussed in terms of their implications for developing models of intergroup interactions and designing approaches to improve these interactions.

Key Words: attitudes toward Hispanics • attitudes toward Whites • avoidance • Hispanic • intergroup interactions

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Vol. 11, No. 4, 555-574 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1368430208095827


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