Study Looks at Biracial AssignmentPosted in Articles, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2010-12-13 21:24Z by Steven |
Study Looks at Biracial Assignment
The Harvard Crimson
2010-12-13
Hana N. Rouse, Crimson Staff Writer
People classify biracial children as members of the minority parent group
People have the tendency to classify those of biracial descent as members of their minority parent group rather than as equal members of both races, according to a recent study published by Harvard psychologists.
The study, led by Harvard psychology graduate student Arnold K. Ho and co-authored by Harvard Professors James Sidanius and Mahzarin R. Banaji and Vanderbilt Professor Daniel T. Levin, employed computer generated faces of varying ethnicities and fictional family trees to test people’s intuitive racial classifications.
Study results suggest that participants classified half-white and half-minority persons as part of a minority. Researchers used computer generated faces of varying ethnicities and fictional family trees to test people’s preferences…
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