Perceiving punishment as a contingent of interethnic relations |
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| Authors: | Joseph Schwarzwald |
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| Institution: | Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel |
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| Abstract: | This study raises the question of whether the perception of punishment is contingent upon ethnic homogeneity or heterogeneity of teachers and students. Eighty Israeli Oriental seventh-grade students were classified into two groups according to their ethnic identification scores. Each was shown one of four films portraying a classroom scene in which a student (Oriental or Western) is punished by either a Western or an Oriental teacher. Results show that the context of interethnic relationships influences the perception of punishment. Compared to low identifiers, the high identifiers perceived punishment as unjust and showed less affection for a Western teacher punishing an Oriental student than for a Western teacher punishing a Western student. In a parallel fashion, the high identifiers assessed more positively an Oriental teacher punishing a Western student than the low identifiers. The results are discussed in terms of interethnic relations and attributional bias. |
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| Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to: Dr Joseph Schwarzwald Department of Psychology Bar-llan University Ramat-Gan Israel |
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