Aversive racism and medical interactions with Black patients: A field study

作者:Penner Louis A*; Dovidio John F; West Tessa V; Gaertner Samuel L; Albrecht Terrance L; Dailey Rhonda K; Markova Tsveti
来源:Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2010, 46(2): 436-440.
DOI:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.11.004

摘要

Medical interactions between Black patients and nonBlack physicians are Usually less positive and productive than same-race interactions We investigated the role that physician explicit and implicit biases play in shaping physician and patient reactions in racially discordant. medical interactions We hypothesized that whereas physicians' explicit bias would predict their own reactions, physicians' implicit bias, in combination with physician explicit (self-reported) bias, Would predict patients' reactions Specifically, we predicted that patients would react most negatively when their physician fit the profile of an aversive racist (i e, low explicit-high implicit bias) The hypothesis about the effects of explicit bias on physicians' reactions was partially supported The aversive racism hypothesis received Support Black patients had less positive reactions to medical interactions with physicians relatively low in explicit but relatively high in

  • 出版日期2010-3