Caucasian-Americans' manner of expressing egalitarianism may inadvertently communicate racial prejudices to ingroup members. Despite most hypothesizing the contrary (Preliminary Study), Caucasian-American perceivers were able to infer ingroup targets' underlying racial attitudes using only targets' written claims of being egalitarian (Experiment 1; N = 256) and regardless of whether targets' had the goal to be honest or as unprejudiced as possible (Experiment 2; N = 456). A Brunswikian lens analysis identified several linguistic cues associated with perceiver accuracy. Language humanizing African-Americans was especially strongly associated with both targets' underlying attitudes and perceivers' inferences of targets' underlying attitudes. Experiment 3 (N = 811) revealed that Caucasian-Americans' egalitarian statements communicate racial attitudes in an epidemiological sense: Perceivers reported higher racial prejudice after being exposed to egalitarian statements from targets higher, versus lower, in underlying prejudice, regardless of whether perceiver and target had congruent or incongruent political identifications. Therefore, egalitarian declarations may ironically perpetuate inegalitarian attitudes.

高加索人表达平均主义的方式可能会无意间将种族偏见传达给团体成员。尽管大多数假设都相反（初步研究），但白种人感知者仅使用目标是平等的书面主张就可以推断出群体目标的潜在种族态度（实验1；N  = 256），而不论目标是否具有目标说实话或尽可能不受偏见（实验2；N  = 456）。Brunswikian的镜头分析确定了与感知器准确性相关的几种语言线索。使非裔美国人人性化的语言与目标的基本态度和感知者对目标的基本态度的推论尤其紧密相关。实验3（Ñ = 811）揭示了高加索裔美国人的平等言论在流行病学意义上传达了种族态度：知觉者在受到潜在偏见的高，低目标的平等言论影响后，报告了较高的种族偏见，无论感知者和目标是否相称或一致政治身份不一致。因此，平等主义的宣言可能具有讽刺意味地使非平等主义的态度永存。