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The present investigation is a partial replication of a previous study which demonstrated that race is given negligible weight for the determination of a social reaction (adjective generation) to a communicator when communicator-reactor belief congruence is at a high level. The present study demonstrated that, even when communicator-reactor belief congruence is at a high level, race is a much more important criterion for social reaction than belief congruence when the highly personally involving social distance reaction is employed.
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Allen, B.P. Social distance reactions to black and white communicators: A replication of an investigation in support of belieft congruence theory. Psychon Sci 22, 344 (1971). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332613
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