How does exposure to masked individuals affect White Americans' attitudes toward Asian American and Pacific Islanders?

Kimberly Rios, Carolyn T Pham, Zhen Hadassah Cheng, Bobby K Cheon

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Article in Social and personality psychology compass, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kimberly RiosDepartment of Psychology, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4844-8405

Carolyn T PhamDepartment of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Zhen Hadassah ChengOregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Bobby K CheonNational Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

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Intramural NIH HHS Z99 HD999999

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Abstract

Across three studies, conducted between Spring 2020 and Spring 2021, we tested whether exposure to an Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) target person wearing a face mask would increase or decrease White Americans' perceived threat from and positivity toward AAPI individuals. Although results varied by study, a single-paper meta-analysis revealed that the masked (compared to unmasked) AAPI target resulted in greater positivity toward AAPIs, due to reduced perceptions of both symbolic threat to group values and realistic threat to group health. Positivity toward AAPIs did not reliably differ after exposure to a masked versus unmasked White target. Implications for interventions that encourage COVID-safe behaviors and combat anti-AAPI attitudes are discussed.

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attitudes toward AAPIsCOVID-19 attitudesface masksrealistic threatsymbolic threat

Identifiers

PMID42416287

DOI10.1111/spc3.12819

PMCPMC13340608

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