{"id":34675,"date":"2013-11-12T01:07:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34675"},"modified":"2013-11-12T01:07:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T01:07:59","slug":"infant-perceptions-of-mixed-race-faces-an-exploration-of-the-hypodescent-rule-in-8-5-month-old-infants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34675","title":{"rendered":"Infant Perceptions of Mixed-Race Faces: An Exploration of the Hypodescent Rule in 8.5 Month-Old Infants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.claremont.edu\/pitzer_theses\/46\" target=\"_blank\">Infant Perceptions of Mixed-Race Faces: An Exploration of the Hypodescent Rule in 8.5 Month-Old Infants<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pitzer College, Claremont, California<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.claremont.edu\/pitzer_theses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Senior Theses<\/a><br \/>\nSpring 2013<br \/>\n42 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophie Beiers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Studies have shown that adults often categorize mixed-race individuals of White and non-White descent as members of the non-White racial group, an effect said to be reminiscent of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\">hypodescent<\/a>\u201d or \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3208\" target=\"_blank\">one-drop rule<\/a>.\u201d This effect has not yet been thoroughly studied in infants, although 9-month-old infants have been shown to be able to categorize mono-racial faces into different racial groups. In the present study, the perception of mixed-race White and Asian\/Asian American faces was studied in sixteen 8.5-month-old infants. The infants were randomly assigned to two stimulus groups. The stimuli were the photographed faces of female college students who had self-identified as White, Asian\/Asian American, or a 50-50 mix of those two races. Half the infants were habituated to White faces and half were habituated to Asian\/Asian American faces, after which all infants were shown a mixed-race face. The results revealed that only infants in the White stimulus group recovered looking to the mixed-race face. This effect suggests that 8.5- month-old infants might see the mixed-race face as part of a different racial group than the White faces, and may see the mixed-race face as part of the same racial group as the Asian faces. Implications of this study on a larger scale are discussed. Further research including a larger sample size and participants of Asian\/Asian American descent is recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.claremont.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&amp;context=pitzer_theses\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infant Perceptions of Mixed-Race Faces: An Exploration of the Hypodescent Rule in 8.5 Month-Old Infants Pitzer College, Claremont, California Senior Theses Spring 2013 42 pages Sophie Beiers Studies have shown that adults often categorize mixed-race individuals of White and non-White descent as members of the non-White racial group, an effect said to be reminiscent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,838,125,8,20],"tags":[16339,16338],"class_list":["post-34675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-dissertations","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-pitzer-college","tag-sophie-beiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34675","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=34675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}