The anti-prejudice norm and the motivation to comply with it significantly influence political preferences among majority populations, argues this research. Existing studies often overlook these internalized social pressures against minority bias. This paper introduces measures capturing such motivations and demonstrates they affect voting behavior through experiments and surveys in Britain and Germany. The findings support a dual-process model: while negative stereotypes may exist, contextual signals can activate individuals' better angels to act against prejudice.
| The Better Angels of Our Nature: How the Anti-Prejudice Norm Affects Policy and Party Preferences in Great Britain and Germany was authored by Blinder Scott, Robert Ford and Elisabeth Ivarsflaten. It was published by Wiley in AJPS in 2013. |
