Polling data show that 69% of Asian American voters favor affirmative action. However, Asian Americans were featured prominently by the organization Students for Fair Admissions, which played a central role in the Supreme Court's decision to overturn affirmative action. This may distort people's estimates of Asian Americans’ support for affirmative action. Two studies (N = 695) found that people, even Asian Americans, underestimated Asian Americans’ support for affirmative action. Three follow‐up studies (N = 1,625), where we manipulated perceived Asian Americans’ support for affirmative action or the Supreme Court's decision, found no evidence that such information affected White people's support for affirmative action. In Study 6 (N = 365), however, we found that Asian Americans were more likely to agree with the Supreme Court's decision to overturn affirmative action when they saw that a majority of Asian Americans supported the court ruling (relative to a control condition in which no information was presented). This suggests that the widespread misperception of Asian Americans’ support for affirmative action and their central role in the Supreme Court cases may ultimately create a self‐fulfilling prophecy that could shift individual Asian Americans’ own attitude about affirmative action.

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亚裔美国人对平权行动的支持普遍被严重低估

民调数据显示，69%的亚裔美国选民支持平权行动。然而，“学生公平招生”组织突出强调了亚裔美国人的特点，该组织在最高法院推翻平权法案的决定中发挥了核心作用。这可能会扭曲人们对亚裔美国人支持平权行动的估计。两项研究（氮= 695）发现人们，甚至是亚裔美国人，都低估了亚裔美国人对平权行动的支持。三项后续研究（氮= 1,625），我们操纵了亚裔美国人对平权行动的支持或最高法院的判决，没有发现任何证据表明此类信息影响了白人对平权行动的支持。在研究 6 中（氮= 365），然而，我们发现，当亚裔美国人看到大多数亚裔美国人支持法院裁决时，他们更有可能同意最高法院推翻平权行动的决定（相对于不提供任何信息的控制条件） ）。这表明，对亚裔美国人支持平权行动及其在最高法院案件中的核心作用的广泛误解可能最终会产生一个自我实现的预言，从而改变亚裔美国人个人对平权行动的态度。