Racial Bias in Peer Ratings at ROTC Advanced Summer Camp, Fort Bragg, 1975

Abstract

Black and white ROTC cadets attending summer camp made positive and negative leader preference ratings. Markd biases occurred based on race of rater and ratee, especially for black cadets. Black raters systematically over selected black cadets as most preferred leaders and, consequently, under selected whites as most preferred leaders. As a corollary, the black raters under selected blacks as least preferred leaders and over selected whites as least preferred leaders. White cadets tended to over select whites as preferred leaders but did not discriminate on the basis of race for least preferred leader. Black cadets were more biased against whites than were white cadets towards blacks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA076821

Entities

People

  • E. S. Mohr
  • R. F. Reidy
  • Ralph R. Canter

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Group Processes (Social Psychology)
  • Leadership
  • Military Research
  • Military Training
  • New York
  • Peer Groups
  • Prejudice
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Social Sciences
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • United States Military Academy

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