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SUMMARY:Sharon M. Guten Colloquium Series: Ivuoma Onyeador\, Northwestern University
DESCRIPTION:Title: Recasting the Past to Protect the Present: Investigating\nMisperceptions of Progress to Social Equality \nAbstract: While most Americans believe that everyone should have an equal opportunity to succeed\, the US\nis marked by a wide array of deep and persistent inequalities. One way this disconnect manifests is\nin people’s perceptions of equality between groups of differing social status. Previous research has\ndocumented that Americans overestimate equality between White and Black Americans.\nAmericans’ perceptions of gender equality has not yet been explored\, nor have these perceptions\nbeen explored intersectionally. We find that\, as with equality between White and Black Americans\,\nAmericans overestimate equality between men and women—in the past and the present—and\nprogress toward equality between men and women. Further\, (mis)perceptions of gender equality\ndiffer depending on the race of the men and women under consideration. These misperceptions\nmatter because they might undermine support for policies to redress inequality. And indeed\, the\ntendency to overestimate equality between men and women is negatively related to support for\npolicies to address inequality. People might overestimate progress because they distance the\npresent from a more bigoted past\, so we explore temporal distancing from major incidents of racial\noppression and find that the more people distance from periods of racial oppression\, the less\ninequality they perceive in the present. Thus\, one way to address misperceptions of contemporary\neconomic equality and progress could be to inform people about the persistence of discrimination.\nWe test one such intervention and find that reminding people about the persistence of\ndiscrimination does reduce estimates of progress\, but participants’ estimates are reduced because\nthey recast the past as more equal than they would have otherwise\, rather than reevaluating the\npresent to be less equal than they expect. Ultimately\, a better understanding of how Americans\nperceive equality is required to ensure a system where equal opportunity is present. \n
URL:http://psych.wisc.edu/event/sharon-m-guten-colloquium-series-ivuoma-onyeador/
LOCATION:Brogden Psychology Building Room 121
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