We conducted five experiments to investigate how multicultural meritocracy affects well-established effects from previous research. Our hypotheses focused on how the different ideologies address the inclusion and fairness concerns of Whites and of minorities. For Whites, we predicted that multicultural meritocracy would be more effective than multiculturalism because it addresses both their inclusion and fairness needs not met by multiculturalism. For minorities, we predicted that multicultural meritocracy would be more effective than value-in-merit by addressing the inclusion and fairness needs not met by value-in-merit. Thus, our main comparison for Whites was between multicultural meritocracy and multiculturalism, and our main comparison for minorities was between multicultural meritocracy and value-in-merit.
