Recently, major societal events have shaped perceptions of race relations in the US. The current work argues that people’s motivations to be nonprejudiced toward Black people have changed in concert with these broader societal forces. Analyses of two independent archival datasets reveal that nonprejudiced motivations changed predictably in accordance with shifts in the social milieu over the last 15 years. In one dataset (N = 13,395), we track movement in internal and external motivations to respond without prejudice from 2004 to 2017. Internal motivation initially decreased before ticking upward following multiple events suggesting worsening race relations (e.g., noteworthy killings of unarmed Black men, resurgent racialized politics). Conversely, external motivation initially increased but reversed course across the same time span. A second dataset (N = 2,503) corroborates these trends in two conceptually related nonprejudiced motivations. Results suggest that changes in nonprejudiced motivations may reflect broader shifts in the sociopolitical climate.

最近，重大社会事件影响了美国对种族关系的看法。目前的工作认为，人们不歧视黑人的动机随着这些更广泛的社会力量而改变。对两个独立档案数据集的分析表明，在过去 15 年中，不带偏见的动机会随着社会环境的变化而发生可预测的变化。在一个数据集中（N= 13,395），我们跟踪了 2004 年至 2017 年期间内部和外部动机在不带偏见的情况下做出回应的动向。内部动机最初下降，然后在多次表明种族关系恶化的事件（例如，手无寸铁的黑人被杀、种族化政治死灰复燃）之后逐渐上升。相反，外部动机最初增加但在同一时间跨度内逆转。第二个数据集 ( N = 2,503) 在两个概念上相关的非偏见动机中证实了这些趋势。结果表明，非偏见动机的变化可能反映了社会政治气候的更广泛变化。