Analysis Plan =========== (1) **Primary Analysis: External explanations moderate the meaning of implicit associations on the IAT. A two-way interaction between implicit racial bias and endorsement of external explanations on positive attitudes toward African American culture.** To replicate the original analysis strategy, positive attitude toward African American culture will be regressed on Internal Motivation to Avoid Prejudiced Responding (IMS), IAT scores, endorsement of external explanations, and the interaction of IAT scores and endorsement of external explanations. This analysis will be followed up with simple slope analyses for participants at +1 SD and -1 SD on the external explanations scale. We will also conduct these analyses without IMS as a covariate. To further clarify the relationship, we will compute correlation coefficients between implicit and explicit attitudes for different levels of external explanations. The levels will be defined by the distribution of external explanation scores such that at least 30 participants are in each group and we represent as much of the distribution as possible. (2) **Secondary Analysis: White ethnic identification moderates the meaning of external explanations for African American status on racial attitudes. Three-way interaction between implicit racial bias, endorsement of external explanations, and White identity on positive attitudes toward African American culture.** Positive attitude toward African American culture will be regressed on White Identity, IAT scores, endorsement of external explanations, and a three-way interaction of these three variables. To replicate the original analysis strategy, we will regress positive attitude toward African American culture on IAT scores, endorsement of external explanations, and an interaction of these two variables on people "low" in White Identity and "high" in White identity (using a median split to designate participants "low" and "high" in White identity). Follow-up simple slope analyses will be conducted for participants at +1 SD and - 1 SD on the external explanations scale. To further clarify the relationship, we will compute correlation coefficients between implicit and explicit attitudes for different levels of external explanations for people low and high in White identity. The levels will be defined by the distribution of external explanation scores such that at least 30 participants are in each group and we represent as much of the distribution as possible. We will also examine the relations across the distribution of White identity, rather than relying on a median split. (3) **Secondary Analysis: For people who endorse external explanations for African American status, implicit racial bias is associated with dispositional empathy-proneness. Two-way interaction between implicit racial bias and endorsement of external explanations on empathic concern** Empathic concern (measured on the Interpersonal Reactivity Index; Davis, 1980) will be regressed on IAT scores, external explanations, and their interaction. This analysis will be followed up with simple slope analyses for partcipants at +1 SD and -1SD on the external explanations scale. (4) **Tertiary Analysis: We will re-conduct the analyses (1) and (2)with three other racial attitude measures (the Modern Racism Scale, Feeling Thermometers, and a measure of preferences for White people compared to Black people) as outcome variables instead of the positive attitudes toward African American culture scale.**