 Suzanne
Klonis
Department of Psychology
1202 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI, 53706
Phone: 608-265-3960
Email: scklonis@students.wisc.edu
I am exploring how racial attitudes are influenced
by targets’ socioeconomic status. In past semesters,
we have used both self-report and implicit measures to examine
attitudes toward different SES/race groups (e.g., poor Blacks,
upper middle-class Whites, etc.). The findings from these
studies have consistently shown that upper middle-class people
(both Black and White) are evaluated much more positively
than lower-class people, and interestingly, lower-class Whites
are evaluated even more negatively than lower-class Blacks.
One reason for this disparity may be that poor Blacks are
not be seen as entirely to blame for their poverty (because
of discrimination) while poor Whites are. I am currently looking
at how attitudes towards Blacks and Whites of differing SES
levels might be rooted in people’s values and attributions
for economic success or failure.
Shrein Bahrami, Suzanne Klonis, Ellen Kleiner, Vivienne
Yeh
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