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Predicting Behavior During Interracial Interactions: A Stress and Coping Approach
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The social psychological literature maintains unequivocally that interracial contact is stressful. Yet research and theory have rarely considered how stress may shape behavior during interracial interactions. To address this empirical and theoretical gap, the authors propose a framework for understanding and predicting behavior during interracial interactions rooted in the stress and coping literature. Specifically, they propose that individuals often appraise interracial interactions as a threat, experience stress, and therefore cope-they antagonize, avoid, freeze, or engage. In other words, the behavioral dynamics of interracial interactions can be understood as initial stress reactions and subsequent coping responses. After articulating the framework and its predictions for behavior during interracial interactions, the authors examine its ability to organize the extant literature on behavioral dynamics during interracial compared with same-race contact. They conclude with a discussion of the implications of the stress and coping framework for improving research and fostering more positive interracial contact.
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- Authors
- Trawalter, S., Richeson, J. A., & Shelton, J. N.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Northwestern University (US)
- Princeton University (US)
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2009-09-24
- Volume
- 13
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 243-268
- ISSN
- 1088-8683 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7957
- OpenAlex
- W2066704163
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- 280
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- FWCI
- 6.16
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Personality and Social Psychology Review (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (F32HD055772)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- interracial contact, interracial interaction, stress coping, threat appraisal, coping strategies, antagonism, avoidance, freezing response, engagement, behavioral dynamics, intergroup relations
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Humans, Models, Psychological, Nonverbal Communication, Prejudice, Race Relations, Stress, Psychological
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