Beliefs about Jesus’ race and psychological correlates among Asian American college students
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Paul Kim
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Psychology
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Limited research has examined how people of color view Jesus’ race. Thus, we investigated the relationship between Jesus’ race and implicit bias when viewing images of Jesus in a Christian Asian American student sample. We hypothesized that participants would more quickly and easily link White Jesus with positive words and non-White Jesus with negative words (i.e., implicit bias). This was true, especially for participants who explicitly endorsed Jesus as a White person. Additionally, we predicted that racial colorblindness, ethnic identity, and internalized model minority stereotype would correlate with implicit bias; however, this was only true for racial colorblindness.
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Beliefs about Jesus’ race and psychological correlates among Asian American college students
Limited research has examined how people of color view Jesus’ race. Thus, we investigated the relationship between Jesus’ race and implicit bias when viewing images of Jesus in a Christian Asian American student sample. We hypothesized that participants would more quickly and easily link White Jesus with positive words and non-White Jesus with negative words (i.e., implicit bias). This was true, especially for participants who explicitly endorsed Jesus as a White person. Additionally, we predicted that racial colorblindness, ethnic identity, and internalized model minority stereotype would correlate with implicit bias; however, this was only true for racial colorblindness.