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Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism Kerry Kawakami, et al. Science 323, 276 (2009); DOI: 10.1126/science.1164951 The following resources related to this article are available online at www.sciencemag.org (this information is current as of January 8, 2009 ):
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Mispredicting Affective and Behavioral Responses to Racism
Kerry Kawakami,1* Elizabeth Dunn,2 Francine Karmali,1 John F. Dovidio3 Contemporary race relations are marked by an apparent paradox: Overt prejudice is strongly condemned, yet acts of blatant racism still frequently occur. We propose that one reason for this inconsistency is that people misunderstand how they would feel and behave after witnessing racism. The present research demonstrates that although people predicted that they would be very upset by a racist act, when