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The hubris penalty: biased responses to "celebration" displays of black football players

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posted on 2023-06-08, 14:57 authored by Erika V Hall, Robert W Livingston
We posit that pride and arrogance are tolerated for high-status group members but are repudiated for low-status group members. Thus, we predict that Blacks, but not Whites, who behave arrogantly will be penalized. Specifically, we investigated the context of penalties against football players for “celebrating” after touchdowns. We propose that such celebrations reflect a racially biased “hubris penalty” because: (1) celebrations are primarily perceived as displays of arrogance (rather than exuberance), and (2) arrogance is penalized for Black but not White players. Three experiments demonstrate that all players who celebrated after touchdowns were perceived as more arrogant than those who did not celebrate. Although celebratory Black and White players were perceived as being equally arrogant, Black players were penalized with lower compensation whereas White players were not. Mediation analyses show that perceived arrogance mediated the effect of celebration on compensation, even when controlling for perceived aggression.

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  • Published

Journal

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

ISSN

0022-1031

Publisher

Elsevier

Issue

4

Volume

48

Page range

899-904

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  • Business and Management Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2013-05-17

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