{"id":31386,"date":"2013-05-29T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31386"},"modified":"2015-01-02T20:28:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T20:28:36","slug":"looking-the-part-social-status-cues-shape-race-perception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31386","title":{"rendered":"Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

PLoS ONE<\/a>
\nVolume 6, Issue 9: e25107
\nPublished: 2011-09-26
\nDOI: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0025107<\/a><\/p>\n

Jonathan B. Freemam<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0 Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
\nDartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire<\/em><\/p>\n

Andrew M. Penner<\/a><\/strong>, Associate\u00a0Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n

Aliya Saperstein<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology
\nStanford University<\/em><\/p>\n

Matthias Scheutz<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Computer Science
\nTufts University, Medford, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

Nalini Ambady<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Psychology
\nStanford University<\/em><\/p>\n

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It is commonly believed that race is perceived through another’s facial features, such as skin color. In the present research, we demonstrate that cues to social status that often surround a face systematically change the perception of its race. Participants categorized the race of faces that varied along White\u2013Black morph continua and that were presented with high-status or low-status attire. Low-status attire increased the likelihood of categorization as Black, whereas high-status attire increased the likelihood of categorization as White; and this influence grew stronger as race became more ambiguous (Experiment 1). When faces with high-status attire were categorized as Black or faces with low-status attire were categorized as White, participants’ hand movements nevertheless revealed a simultaneous attraction to select the other race-category response (stereotypically tied to the status cue) before arriving at a final categorization. Further, this attraction effect grew as race became more ambiguous (Experiment 2). Computational simulations then demonstrated that these effects may be accounted for by a neurally plausible person categorization system, in which contextual cues come to trigger stereotypes that in turn influence race perception. Together, the findings show how stereotypes interact with physical cues to shape person categorization, and suggest that social and contextual factors guide the perception of race.<\/p>\n

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Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perception PLoS ONE Volume 6, Issue 9: e25107 Published: 2011-09-26 DOI: 10.1371\/journal.pone.0025107 Jonathan B. Freemam,\u00a0 Assistant Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Andrew M. Penner, Associate\u00a0Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Matthias Scheutz, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[2840,3893,3009,1512,14802,14803,277,11247],"class_list":["post-31386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-aliya-saperstein","tag-andrew-m-penner","tag-andrew-penner","tag-jonathan-b-freemam","tag-jonathan-freemam","tag-matthias-scheutz","tag-nalini-ambady","tag-plos-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31386","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=31386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}