Racial privity judgments – or the perceived causal connection between historical racial discrimination and current suffering among Black Americans – predicts sympathy for the victims of past injustices and perceptions of contemporary racial inequality. Four studies investigated the ideological roots of privity judgments; focusing on subjective temporal perceptions associated with privity judgments (e.g., subjective perceptions that past discrimination occurred more, versus less, recently). Study 1 revealed that liberals perceived historical instances of racial discrimination as having occurred more recently than conservatives, and that temporal perceptions of recency were associated with less anti-Black bias. Studies 2–4 manipulated temporal perceptions of recency by framing past discrimination as having occurred more recently. Results revealed that increasing perceived temporal recency resulted in reduced anti-Black bias and greater sympathy for present-day victims of racial discrimination across political ideology. Discussion surrounds how framing historical information as subjectively recent has implications for prejudice reduction.

种族歧视的判决，或者说是历史种族歧视与美国黑人当前苦难之间的因果关系，预示着对过去不公正行为和当代种族不平等观念的受害者的同情。有四项研究调查了特权判断的意识形态根源。着重于与隐私权判断相关的主观时间感知（例如，过去歧视发生的主观感知更多，而不是最近发生的主观感知）。研究1显示，自由主义者认为种族歧视的历史实例比保守主义者新近发生，并且对新近性的时间感知与较少的反黑人偏见有关。研究2–4通过将过去的歧视归因为最近发生的现象来操纵对新近度的时间感知。结果表明，对当今跨政治意识形态的种族歧视受害者而言，感觉上的新近度的提高导致反黑人偏见的减少和同情心的增强。讨论围绕将历史信息主观化为最新内容如何影响偏见的减少。