The study examined how positive attitudes toward Asian Americans impact perceptions of the harmful effects of workplace racial microaggressions enacted against Asian Americans. Positive stereotypes based on the model minority myth portray Asian Americans as hard-working, industrious, and technically competent. Such positive stereotypes can influence individuals' attitudes toward Asian Americans, and as a result, also affect their ability to perceive the harmful effects of subtle types of racial microaggressions, which can be just as harmful, if not more so, than blatant microaggressions. To examine this, we asked participants to read a series of vignettes depicting blatant (microassault) and various types of subtle (microinsult, microinvalidation, and overvalidation) racial microaggressions. As expected, individuals with more positive attitudes toward Asian Americans viewed the blatant microaggressions against Asians as more harmful compared to those who held less positive attitudes. Results also revealed that positive attitudes toward Asian Americans did not influence perceptions of the harmful effects of the subtler microaggressions (overvalidation and microinvalidation). We discuss the implications of these findings.

该研究调查了对亚裔美国人的积极态度如何影响人们对工作场所针对亚裔美国人的种族微侵略的有害影响的看法。基于模范少数族裔神话的积极刻板印象将亚裔美国人描绘成勤奋、勤奋和技术上能干的人。这种积极的刻板印象会影响个人对亚裔美国人的态度，因此也会影响他们感知微妙类型的种族微侵略的有害影响的能力，这可能与公然的微侵略一样有害，甚至更多。为了检验这一点，我们要求参与者阅读一系列描述公然（微攻击）和各种微妙（微侮辱、微无效和过度验证）种族微攻击的小插曲。正如预期的那样，对亚裔美国人持更积极态度的人认为，与那些态度不太积极的人相比，对亚裔的公然微攻击更有害。结果还表明，对亚裔美国人的积极态度不会影响对更微妙的微攻击（过度验证和微失效）有害影响的看法。我们讨论了这些发现的含义。