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Predicting behavior during interracial interactions: a stress and coping approach.

Sophie Trawalter¹, Jennifer A Richeson, J Nicole Shelton

¹Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. trawalt@email.unc.edu

Personality and Social Psychology Review : an Official Journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc

|September 26, 2009

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Interracial contact can be stressful, leading to threat appraisals and coping behaviors like antagonism or engagement. This framework explains interracial interaction dynamics as stress responses and coping mechanisms.

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Area of Science:

Social Psychology
Stress and Coping Theory

Background:

Interracial contact is widely recognized as stressful in social psychology.
However, how stress influences behavior during interracial interactions remains underexplored.
Existing research lacks a theoretical framework to explain behavioral dynamics in these contexts.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a novel framework for understanding and predicting behavior during interracial interactions.
To integrate stress and coping theories into the study of interracial contact.
To address the empirical and theoretical gap regarding stress in interracial dynamics.

Main Methods:

The study articulates a framework based on stress and coping literature.
It proposes that individuals appraise interracial interactions as threats, leading to stress.
Behavioral responses (antagonize, avoid, freeze, engage) are framed as coping mechanisms.

Main Results:

The proposed framework organizes existing literature on interracial interaction behaviors.
It highlights that behavioral dynamics are initial stress reactions and subsequent coping responses.
The framework provides a new lens for comparing interracial and same-race contact behaviors.

Conclusions:

The stress and coping framework offers a robust model for understanding interracial interactions.
It suggests that managing perceived threat and stress is key to positive contact.
Implications for future research and interventions to foster better interracial relations are discussed.