{"id":1796,"date":"2009-10-10T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:32:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T18:32:15","slug":"multiracial-faces-how-categorization-affects-memory-at-the-boundaries-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=1796","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Faces: How Categorization Affects Memory at the Boundaries of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-4560.2008.01588.x\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Faces: How Categorization Affects Memory at the Boundaries of Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1540-4560\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Social Issues<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/josi.2009.65.issue-1\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 65, Number 1<\/a> (March 2009)<br \/>\npages 69-86<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1540-4560.2008.01588.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1540-4560.2008.01588.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/psychology\/ambady\/pauker.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kristin Pauker<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Tufts University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/psychology\/ambady\/ambady.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nalini Ambady<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tufts University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Monoracial and multiracial individuals are likely to have different conceptualizations of race and subsequently different approaches toward racial ambiguity. \u00a0In particular, monoracial individuals may be more likely to rely on categories when processing ambiguous faces, whereas multiracial individuals may tend to ignore such categorizations due to a reduced tendency to essentialize race.\u00a0 We compared monoracial (White and Asian) and biracial (Asian\/White) individuals\u2019 memory patterns.\u00a0 Specifically, we examined participants\u2019 memory for White, Asian, and biracial faces labelled as either White or Asian.\u00a0 Both White and Asian participants relied on the labels, remembering faces labeled as the in-group better than faces labeled as the out-group. Biracial participants relied less on the labels, exhibiting better recognition memory overall. Biracial participants\u2019 memory performance was also highly correlated with a less essentialist view of human traits.\u00a0 This cognitive flexibility may serve an adaptive function for biracial individuals and contribute to enhanced facial recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.interscience.wiley.com\/cgi-bin\/fulltext\/121647659\/PDFSTART\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial Faces: How Categorization Affects Memory at the Boundaries of Race Journal of Social Issues Volume 65, Number 1 (March 2009) pages 69-86 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1540-4560.2008.01588.x Kristin Pauker Tufts University Nalini Ambady Tufts University Monoracial and multiracial individuals are likely to have different conceptualizations of race and subsequently different approaches toward racial ambiguity. \u00a0In particular, monoracial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,394,20],"tags":[107,276,277],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-journal-of-social-issues","tag-kristin-pauker","tag-nalini-ambady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","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=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}