for Social Construction; coefficient = .460 and p < .01 for Genetic Reality). However, the relationship between explicit racism and belief in essential racial differences was small and nonsignificant for both comparison vignettes (coefficient = .031 for Social Construction; coefficient = −.156 for Genetic Reality). Implicit (but not explicit) racism thus played a role in shaping responses to the two comparison vignettes, whose social relevance is more obvious than that of the Backdoor Vignette.
