ICPS

2023 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2023

Secondary Effects of Police Violence: Racial Identity Differences Predict Negative Affect and Willingness to Engage in Collective Action Among Black Americans

Brussels, Belgium · March 2023

poster · Social Psychology

  • Valerian Derlega
    Old Dominion University
  • Brynn Sheehan
    Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • Delaram Totonchi
    University of Virginia

Abstract

The study tested a path model to understand whether willingness to participate in collective action and feelings of negative affect in response to police killing of a Black man can be explained by individual differences in racial identity, identification with the shooting victim, and feeling personally threatened by the incident.

Race and Ethnicity