APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
An Ideological Approach to Understanding Symbolic Violence: The Societal Inequality of Intelligence Testing
- Ariel Mosley
University of Kansas - Jean-Claude Croizet
University of Clermont Auvergne - Jean-Claude Croizet
University of Poitiers - Glenn Adams
University of Kansas - Monica Biernat
University of Kansas
Abstract
We presented 114 undergraduate students with information in the form of news articles suggesting either that intelligence testing is biased or legitimate. The lower a student’s parental income, the more likely they were to perceive that poor Americans would be threatened when reading the article suggesting testing is legitimate.
Social Groups/Social Relationships
