{"id":10241,"date":"2011-01-13T12:21:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T12:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10241"},"modified":"2016-03-08T01:42:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T01:42:16","slug":"why-barack-obama-is-black-a-cognitive-account-of-hypodescent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10241","title":{"rendered":"Why Barack Obama Is Black: A Cognitive Account of Hypodescent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797610390383\" target=\"_blank\">Why Barack Obama Is Black: A Cognitive Account of Hypodescent<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/22\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Psychological Science<br \/>\nVolume 22, Number 1<\/a> (January 2011)<br \/>\npages 29-33<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797610390383\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0956797610390383<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/psy.otago.ac.nz\/staff\/halberstadt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jamin Halberstadt<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Otago<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/psych.indiana.edu\/faculty\/pages\/sherman.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Steven J. Sherman<\/a><\/strong>, Chancellor\u2019s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences<br \/>\n<em>Indiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/psychology.ucdavis.edu\/faculty\/Sherman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffrey W. Sherman<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We propose that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\">hypodescent<\/a>\u2014the assignment of mixed-race individuals to a minority group\u2014is an emergent feature of basic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognition\" target=\"_blank\">cognitive processes<\/a> of learning and categorization. According to attention theory, minority groups are learned by attending to the features that distinguish them from previously learned majority groups. Selective attention creates a strong association between minority groups and their distinctive features, producing a tendency to see individuals who possess a mixture of majority- and minority-group traits as minority-group members. Two experiments on face categorization, using both naturally occurring and manipulated minority groups, support this view, suggesting that hypodescent need not be the product of racist or political motivations, but can be sufficiently explained by an individual\u2019s learning history.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2010\/11\/24\/0956797610390383.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Barack Obama Is Black: A Cognitive Account of Hypodescent Psychological Science Volume 22, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 29-33 DOI: 10.1177\/0956797610390383 Jamin Halberstadt, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Otago Steven J. Sherman, Chancellor\u2019s Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University, Bloomington Jeffrey W. Sherman, Professor of Psychology University of California, Davis We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,125,8,20],"tags":[4500,4504,4503,2201,4502,4501],"class_list":["post-10241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-jamin-halberstadt","tag-jeffrey-sherman","tag-jeffrey-w-sherman","tag-psychological-science","tag-steven-j-sherman","tag-steven-sherman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45934,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10241\/revisions\/45934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}