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Abstract：
Sharing experiences with racism (racial discrimination disclosure) has the power to raise awareness of discrimination and spur meaningful conversations about race. Sharing these experiences with racism on social media may prompt a range of responses among users. While previous work investigates how disclosure impacts disclosers and listeners, we extend this research to explore the impact of observing discussions about racial discrimination online-what we call vicarious race talk. In a series of experiments using real social media posts, we show that the initial response to racial discrimination disclosure-whether the response denies or validates the poster\'s perspective-influences observers\' own perceptions and attitudes. Despite observers identifying denial as less supportive than validation, those who observed a denial response showed less responsive attitudes toward the poster/target (Studies 1-3) and less support for discussions about discrimination on social media in general (Studies 2-3). Exploratory findings revealed that those who viewed denial comments also judged the transgressor as less racist, and expressed less support and more denial in their own comments. This suggests that even as observers negatively judge denial, their perceptions of the poster are nonetheless negatively influenced, and this impact extends to devaluing the topic of discrimination broadly. We highlight the context of social media, where racial discrimination disclosure-and how people respond to it-may be particularly consequential.
摘要：
分享与种族主义（种族歧视披露）的经验有能力提高对歧视的认识，并激发有关种族的有意义的对话。在社交媒体上与种族主义分享这些经历可能会促使用户做出一系列回应。虽然以前的工作调查了披露如何影响披露者和听众，我们扩展了这项研究，以探索在线观察有关种族歧视的讨论的影响-我们称之为替代种族谈话。在一系列使用真实社交媒体帖子的实验中，我们表明，对种族歧视披露的最初反应——无论是否认还是验证海报的观点——都会影响观察者自己的看法和态度。尽管观察者认为否认不如验证支持，那些观察到否认反应的人对海报/目标的反应较少(研究1-3),对一般社交媒体歧视讨论的支持较少(研究2-3).探索性发现显示，那些认为否认评论的人也认为违法者不那么种族主义，并在自己的评论中表示更少的支持和更多的否认。这表明，即使观察者负面地判断否认，尽管如此，他们对海报的看法受到了负面影响，这种影响延伸到广泛贬低歧视的话题。我们强调社交媒体的背景，种族歧视的披露——以及人们对它的反应——可能特别重要。
