intended behavior
Definition
Intended behavior refers to a person's expressed plan or readiness to perform a specific action. Among People of Color surveyed three weeks before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, voting intentions served as the primary outcome variable, operationalized as intentions to vote for a PoC-aligned representative and for Kamala Harris specifically.
Sources: Rogbeer & Pérez (2026)
Related Terms
- discrimination (1 shared article)
- inter-minority coalition (1 shared article)
- racial solidarity (1 shared article)
- voting (1 shared article)
Applications
Intended Behavior and Solidarity
Solidarity, defined as a sense of shared commitment and collective responsibility among members of different marginalized groups, was examined as a mediator linking shared discrimination appeals to voting intentions among Black, Latino, and Asian American adults. Solidarity did not directly predict voting intentions but was indirectly associated with higher intentions to vote for both a generic PoC-aligned representative and Kamala Harris, with structural equation modeling showing good fit (CFI = .986, RMSEA = .027). The association between solidarity and Harris vote intentions was significantly stronger for Latino and Asian Americans than for Black Americans, consistent with a partisan ceiling effect among Black voters.
Sources: Rogbeer & Pérez (2026)
Intended Behavior and Shared Discrimination
Shared discrimination appeals made experiences of cross-racial marginalization salient in parallel survey experiments with nationally representative samples of Black, Latino, and Asian American adults. These appeals increased solidarity uniformly across racial groups but produced no direct effect on voting intentions, indicating that the path from shared discrimination to intended electoral behavior runs through solidarity rather than operating independently.
Sources: Rogbeer & Pérez (2026)
