PREJUDICE AND OPENNESS TO THE OTHER 2 Prejudice and Openness to the Other: Investigating Responses to Testimonies of Race-Based Suffering
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The present study employed a variety of existing measures to assess openness to the other in the ecologically valid context of listening to real-life testimonies of race-based suffering. Variation in system threat, as well individual differences in two measures of prejudiceRight Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO)were all investigated for their impact on respondent openness. Among 36 student volunteers it was found that a woman's testimony featuring a high degree of system threat engendered less openness to the other among participants high in SDO than less threatening testimony offered by a man. Additionally, participant levels of RWA explained a significant amount of variance in their openness to the other across both male and female testimonies. This study quantitatively confirms that testimonies of race-based sufferingutterances that have great potential to interrupt master narratives and invite deep learningare likely to be met with a complex and interactive pattern of resistance that must be more fully understood.
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