Assessment of the white racist American influence on their perspectives on "nationalism" President Barack Obama and assessment of its performance as president. This was revealed by a student S3 University of Delaware.
Eric Hehman, a psychology student, recently received Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award for his paper describing the research study on the subject, entitled Evaluation of Presidential Performance: Race, Prejudice, and Perceptions of Americanism and published in the March issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
Hypothesis Hehman paper focuses on the possibility of racial prejudice that affects "how American" Obama and evaluate performance based on their evaluation of the Obama presidency.
Hehman also predicts that white people are the only group affected assessment of racial prejudice and it's effect on their evaluations of the president.
He predicts that while whites evaluating Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.. or when evaluating the African-American Obama or Biden, racial prejudice would not affect their assessment.
After collecting the results of a poll of about 300 blacks and whites, Hehman find, "White racists are prejudiced against black people think Obama is 'less American' and finally assess the bad performance as president."
"White is not prejudiced and blacks are prejudiced or not does not do that. The most important, this relationship is found only on Obama and not an evaluation of Biden," he added.
The idea Obama is making the latest research began a year ago when he realized that Obama's critics seem to go beyond the type of criticism is usually heard about presidential policy and include a number of aspects that "are not based on reality."
Hehman gave an example of related questions Obama's birth, his religion, as well as allegations that Obama is poisoning the children with a socialist agenda.
"I found these controversies seem a bit odd and questioned whether the impetus behind it stems from accusations of racism that emerged in the 'less American' against Obama," said Hehman.
"Some of the work (psychology professor Samuel Gaertner) previously discussed the same issues regarding the possibility of racial bias influence on behavior. Often unnoticed by people who do it, and therefore investigate this case against Obama is a natural step," added Hehman.
Hehman hope through his paper the reader can see that even among people who are not prejudiced, racial prejudice could unwittingly come up with the end result is very important, such as evaluation of the president.
In addition, Hehman added, "I hope they check their opinions and behavior, either politically or otherwise, to ensure that there is a strong basis, rather than discomfort or racist prejudice."
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