{"id":19497,"date":"2012-01-03T02:33:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T02:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19497"},"modified":"2013-01-21T22:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T22:46:45","slug":"biological-conceptions-of-race-and-the-motivation-to-cross-racial-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19497","title":{"rendered":"Biological Conceptions of Race and the Motivation to Cross Racial Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1037\/0022-3514.94.6.1033\" target=\"_blank\">Biological Conceptions of Race and the Motivation to Cross Racial Boundaries<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/journals\/psp\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Personality and Social Psychology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/journals\/psp\/94\/6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 94, Number 6<\/a> (June 2008)<br \/>\npages 1033\u20131047<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1037\/0022-3514.94.6.1033\" target=\"_blank\">10.1037\/0022-3514.94.6.1033<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goizueta.emory.edu\/faculty\/melissawilliams\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Melissa J. Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor in Organization &amp; Management<br \/>\nGoizueta Business School<br \/>\n<em>Emory University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/dept\/psychology\/cgi-bin\/drupalm\/jeberhardt\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer L. Eberhardt<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Stanford University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The present studies demonstrate that conceiving of racial group membership as biologically determined increases acceptance of racial inequities (Studies 1 and 2) and cools interest in interacting with racial outgroup members (Studies 3\u20135). These effects were generally independent of racial prejudice. It is argued that when race is cast as a biological marker of individuals, people perceive racial outgroup members as unrelated to the self and therefore unworthy of attention and affiliation. Biological conceptions of race therefore provide justification for a racially inequitable status quo and for the continued social marginalization of historically disadvantaged groups.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/mcslab\/cgi-bin\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Biological-conceptions-of-race-and-the-motivation-to-cross-racial-boundaries.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biological Conceptions of Race and the Motivation to Cross Racial Boundaries Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Volume 94, Number 6 (June 2008) pages 1033\u20131047 DOI: 10.1037\/0022-3514.94.6.1033 Melissa J. Williams, Assistant Professor in Organization &amp; Management Goizueta Business School Emory University Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Associate Professor of Psychology Stanford University The present studies demonstrate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394],"tags":[9034,9033,282,9031,9032],"class_list":["post-19497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-jennifer-eberhardt","tag-jennifer-l-eberhardt","tag-journal-of-personality-and-social-psychology","tag-melissa-j-williams","tag-melissa-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19497","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=19497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}