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INTERRACIAL INTERACTIONS AND RESOURCE DEPLETION

Johnson, Darian E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1322674911

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2011, Master of Arts in Psychology, Cleveland State University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
Self-control/self-regulation depends on a limited resource. It has been suggested that self-presentation may require self-regulation particularly when familiar or dispositional tendencies must be overridden in order to make desired impressions. The more resources used the less a person has control of his or hers executive functioning. This is especially true for some people during interracial interactions. Recent research finds that interracial interactions can negatively impact executive functioning. This study examined whether the anticipation of an interracial interaction would deplete regulatory resources more in an unstructured than a structured (i.e. scripted) condition. Also examined in this study, was whether participants would feel more positive when they anticipated interaction in a structured discussion with people of a different race than when structure is absent. Contrary to our predictions, the present study failed to support either hypothesis. The data revealed that there was no correlation of regulatory resources, nor the creation of positive feelings in regards to having an interracial interaction.
Lisa Gaynier, MA (Committee Chair)
Stephen Slane, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
Michael Wisniewski, PhD (Committee Co-Chair)
54 p.
Social Psychology
self-regulation; resource depletion; interracial interactions; self-presentation; automatic processing; controlled processing

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  • Johnson, D. E. (2011). INTERRACIAL INTERACTIONS AND RESOURCE DEPLETION [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1322674911

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Johnson, Darian. INTERRACIAL INTERACTIONS AND RESOURCE DEPLETION. 2011. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1322674911.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Johnson, Darian. "INTERRACIAL INTERACTIONS AND RESOURCE DEPLETION." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1322674911

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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