Perceptions of Multiracial Individuals: Categorization Effects on the Race ContinuumPosted in Live Events, Media Archive, Papers/Presentations, Social Science, United States on 2010-10-04 01:19Z by Steven |
Perceptions of Multiracial Individuals: Categorization Effects on the Race Continuum
Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2011 Annual Meeting
San Antonio, Texas
Poster Session G100
Saturday, 2011-01-29
18:15-19:45 (Local Time), Room TBD
Jacqueline M. Chen
University of California, Santa Barbara
David L. Hamilton, Professor of Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara
We used a psychophysical approach to studying the categorization of biracials. The point-of-subjective-equality (PSE), or the exact ratio of minority-to-white background that is equally likely to be categorized as White or minority, differed for Asian-White and Black-White biracials. Only the PSE for Asian-White biracial suggested hypodescent.
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