• We test a variation of the “Watchdog Hypothesis” based on the idea of implicit ambivalence. • Those low in explicit prejudice and high in implicit prejudice demonstrated enhanced scrutiny of race-relevant messages. • We also test if individuals high in explicit prejudice but low in implicit prejudice will engage in more processing. • As evaluative discrepancies increased, we found enhanced pe...

Abundant research on the relationship between ideologies and sexual prejudice has not focused on intergroup ideologies such as colorblindness, multiculturalism, and polyculturalism. In three studies with racially and ethnically diverse college and community samples, endorsement of polyculturalism— an ideology focusing on the interactions, influences, and connections among racial and ethnic grou...

Using a representative sample of Belgian adolescents (N=1,530) and both their parents, we investigated the parent-child similarity in prejudice toward different outgroups and ideological attitudes (right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation). Contrary to previous studies, we distinguished between common and specific components of prejudice to test whether the parent-child simi...

This study documented significant changes in prejudice toward gay and lesbian individuals among adolescents from the ages of 12 to 18 years. Moreover, in line with developmental theories of prejudice, there was substantial variability in these patterns, partially predicted by the gender and ideological beliefs (reflected by social dominance orientation [SDO]) of individuals. Boys reported highe...

K E Y W O R D S : immigrants, immigration, Latinos, metaphor, metonymy, political discourse, print media, Proposition 187, public discourse, racism Discourse & Society Copyright © 1999 SAGE Publications (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi) Vol 10(2): 191–224 [0957-9265 (199904) 10:2; 191–224; 006826] ingly by voters in spite of a great deal of pre-election controversy surrounding its provi...

This paper considers two common assumptions that often arise in the empirical literature on xenophobia—namely that xenophobic attitudes are found mostly among the poorly educated, and that xenophbia mainly concerns immigrants from low social classes and from geographically and culturally disparate nations. These arguments will be discussed in the context of the migration of high-skilled Germans...