{"id":36819,"date":"2014-07-10T20:56:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36819"},"modified":"2014-07-10T20:59:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T20:59:02","slug":"essentializing-ethnicity-identification-constraint-reduces-diversity-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36819","title":{"rendered":"Essentializing Ethnicity: Identification Constraint Reduces Diversity Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jesp.2014.07.001\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Essentializing Ethnicity: Identification Constraint Reduces Diversity Interest<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/00221031\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Experimental Social Psychology<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable online: 2014-07-10<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jesp.2014.07.001\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.jesp.2014.07.001<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tiane L. Lee<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>University of Maryland, College Park<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanchezlab.com\/CVs\/WiltonCV.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Leigh S. Wilton<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Rutgers University, New Brunswick<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp4.asu.edu\/directory\/person\/1315268\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Virginia S.Y. Kwan<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Arizona State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Priming_(psychology)\" target=\"_blank\">primed<\/a> essentialism with instruction to \u201cCheck One\u201d, rather than \u201cCheck All\u201d, ethnicities.<\/li>\n<li>Minorities reduced diversity engagement, distancing from activities that express background.<\/li>\n<li>Essentialist European-Americans showed less interest in intergroup friendship.<\/li>\n<li>Interaction with chronic essentialist beliefs replicated in a non-race-related context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The present research investigates the effects of a subtle essentialist cue: restricting individuals to identify with only one ethnicity. Although this constraint is mundane and commonly used in everyday life, it sends a message of essentialized group differences. Three studies illustrate the harmful impact of this essentialist cue on diversity. Studies 1a and 1b show that it decreases Asian-Americans\u2019 desire to participate in ethnicity-related activities. Study 2 reveals that it reduces essentialist European-Americans\u2019 desire for friendship with a minority target. Study 3 illustrates the mechanism through which an essentialist cue reduces intergroup contact, with perceivers\u2019 chronic beliefs moderating this effect. Together, these findings demonstrate the powerful impact of the seemingly small act of how we ask people to identify with an ethnic group.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022103114000985\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essentializing Ethnicity: Identification Constraint Reduces Diversity Interest Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Available online: 2014-07-10 DOI: 10.1016\/j.jesp.2014.07.001 Tiane L. Lee University of Maryland, College Park Leigh S. Wilton Rutgers University, New Brunswick Virginia S.Y. Kwan, Associate Professor of Psychology Arizona State University Highlights We primed essentialism with instruction to \u201cCheck One\u201d, rather than \u201cCheck All\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,20],"tags":[1511,9237,9238,17582,17583,17581,17580],"class_list":["post-36819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-journal-of-experimental-social-psychology","tag-leigh-s-wilton","tag-leigh-wilton","tag-tiane-l-lee","tag-tiane-lee","tag-virginia-kwan","tag-virginia-s-y-kwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36819","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=36819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}