ABSTRACT

Racial preferences are sometimes encountered in the sphere of dating, romance, and sex. Using an experimental design, 100 White American participants and 100 American participants of Color were exposed to a mock dating profile that either contained a disclosure of racial preference (i.e., “White guys/girls only”) or did not. Owners of a profile disclosing a racial preference were perceived as more racist, less attractive, and were also rated less positively in a global sense than owners of a profile that did not disclose a preference. Participants were also less willing to connect with them. Additionally, participants who viewed a dating profile disclosing a racial preference reported greater negative affect and lower positive affect than participants who viewed a profile that did not disclose a preference. These effects were largely consistent across both White participants and participants of Color. These findings demonstrate that racial preferences in the intimate sphere are generally responded to unfavorably, both by people for whom rejection is implied by the preferences and by people who are personally unaffected by the preferences.

摘要

在约会、浪漫和性方面有时会遇到种族偏好。通过实验设计，100 名美国白人参与者和 100 名美国有色人种参与者被暴露在模拟约会资料中，其中要么包含种族偏好的披露（即“仅限白人男孩/女孩”），要么不包含。与未披露种族偏好的个人资料所有者相比，公开种族偏好的个人资料所有者被认为更具种族主义色彩，吸引力较差，并且在全球范围内的评价也较低。参与者也不太愿意与他们联系。此外，查看披露种族偏好的约会资料的参与者比查看未披露种族偏好的资料的参与者报告的负面影响更大，正面影响更低。这些影响在白人参与者和有色人种参与者中基本一致。这些发现表明，亲密领域的种族偏好通常会受到不利的反应，无论是那些偏好暗示着拒绝的人，还是那些个人不受偏好影响的人。