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Article Review Name: Professor: Subject: Date: The article pinpoints that to counteract prejudice and promote understanding, having conversations about racial issues with non-White discussion partners might be beneficial. To investigate the roles that race and partisanship play in people's desire to engage in political discourse with members of racial outgroups, the study draws on a sample of Americans across all races and political affiliations, including 201 Black Democrats, 199 Black Republicans, 200 White Democrats, and 200 White Republicans. The results show that Republicans were more likely to make an effort to avoid interracial dialogues about race and that Blacks generally projected more significant unfavorable effects of racial talk with racial outgroups. Results were constrained by the interplay of race and party, which showed that Black Democrats predicted more negative effects from inter-racial talks than all other categories, whereas White Democrats presumed minor adverse outcomes. Republicans of color and white people were similar and positioned themselves closely between the two Democratic categories. However, White Republicans scored much more avoidant than Black Republicans and White Democrats, but not Black Democrats, when it came to wanting to avoid racial dialogues with inter-racial discussion partners. According to the authors, although critical dialogues with members of an outgroup might be advantageous for society, they can also be quite unpleasant for the discussants. The authors imply that people are typically reluctant to express their opinions or participate in conversations regarding sensitive topics when they feel their opinions are in the minority, when their participants are unique in terms of factors like political allegiance or race, or when they anticipate those conversations will have a negative social impact. The study looks at how race and partisanship affect people's inclination to engage in political discourse with members of racial outgroups. Although discussing race with racial outgroups can be challenging, certain groups may be more resistant to having these sorts of discussions than others. According to the paper, black people, in particular, may experience anxiety when interacting with people of different races because they worry that their feelings and experiences will be dismissed, that they will be stigmatized as being overly sensitive or paranoid, or that they will become the object of prejudice. The research's methodology is based on a quota sample created to attain racial and political balance. Respondents were chosen for the study using Qualtrics, an online survey software platform. In eliciting responses to intercultural talks, the research used "imagined interactions," which entail reliving and reevaluating prior conversations and making plans for significant future encounters.  In their daily lives, people engage in imagined interactions when they act out a disagreement with a friend or coworker, consider how they might have handled a difficult situation better, or plan how they will approach a difficult conversation in the future, like breaking up with a significant other or admitting a lie. The study employed imagined interactions to ask about responses to intergroup discussions on racial issues among those who have and have not historically had such talks and those who have and do not have intergroup discussion partners. In other words, this approach enabled the analysis of a hypothetical scenario that all respondents may imagine and, as a result, assess. Being unable to question respondents who had explicitly avoided these exchanges in the past created a significant gap in their grasp of the issue, especially given the author's desire to avoid such talks. Only a portion of the variables assessed for this study is reported here. The respondents' partisanship and race were the main independent variables of interest. The dependent variable for the study's initial data analysis—the adverse outcomes dependent variable—was a count. Hence a generalized linear model with a negative binomial probability distribution was estimated to evaluate the research question and hypotheses for this publication. There was the estimate of a generalized linear model with a normal probability distribution for the avoidance dependent variable. The two message sampling design factors—topic and relationship—and a small number of demographic factors—age, education, income, and gender—were controlled for in the models for both dependent variables. Interracial contact has been the subject of a sizable amount of study, but very few studies have ventured. No other study has successfully examined the interaction of race and partisanship, according to this one, in part due to the challenge of finding enough Black participants in representative national sample surveys and the challenging task of finding and recruiting Black Republicans, who make up only 8% of the Black population. This study addresses themes that have been understudied and infrequently discussed, such as Black and White people's reluctance to discuss sensitive racial topics and the significant impact that partisanship may play in this process. The results of this study...