Excited to share a new paper, with Maggie Harrington, Cinoo Lee & Jennifer Eberhardt! Out now in Scientific Reports: Observers of social media discussions about racial discrimination condemn denial but also adopt it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Observers of social media discussions about racial discrimination condemn denial but also adopt it - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Observers of social media discussions about racial discrimination condemn denial but also adopt it

So, even as people generally endorse norms around how to respond "appropriately" to discrimination disclosures (don't deny!), seeing one person deny racism can negatively shift our own attitudes and behaviors toward discrimination experiences and their targets. (5/5)

Sharing discrimination experiences (discrimination disclosure) can have meaningful effects on a sharer and listener, but on social media we're usually passive observers of other people's interactions. In a series of experiments, we show that... (2/5)