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“After recruiting a [most qualified] Black applicant in one job selection task, participants were more likely to express a preference for a White in a second, unrelated [police] job selection task… Moral credentials… reaffirm one’s self-image as a nonprejudiced person."

Moral Credentials and the Expression of Prejudice Moral Credentials and the Expression of Prejudice Figure 2. Mean preference for a White person [a man] (±SE) by prejudice type and credentials in Study 2. Figure 2. Mean preference for a White person [a man] (±SE) by prejudice type and credentials in Study 2.
Moral Credentials and the Expression of Prejudice
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Monin, Benoit / Miller, Dale T.
Vol. 81 Issue 1, pp. 33–43, 2001
10.1037/0022-3514.81.1.33
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