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    Are you responsible for confronting prejudice?: Increasing ally behaviors by promoting responsibility
    (2021-04-30) Watson, Ivy Danielle; King, Eden B.; King, Danielle
    Increasing diversity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) is a critical goal for universities and organizations alike. Black employees make up less than 6% of the STEM workforce though they enter STEM majors at the same rate as White and Asian students. The proposed research’s overarching goal is to understand how interventions can increase personal responsibility to confront prejudice which may lead to decreasing experiences of prejudice for Black students in STEM-related academic programs. To do this, I focus on how the interventions of psychological standing and superordinate group identity may increase individuals felt responsibility to confront prejudice and the likelihood that the do in fact confront in situations of discrimination. These relationships were tested using an experimental study of 180 Rice undergraduate students. The results showed a significant effect of psychological standing on the likelihood of a student from a racial majority group confronting discrimination. These results support previous research on psychological standing and highlights the importance understanding and refining research on interventions allies can utilize to confront racial discrimination.