{"id":36867,"date":"2014-07-24T06:49:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T06:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36867"},"modified":"2014-07-24T06:49:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T06:49:41","slug":"the-sweetness-of-forbidden-fruit-interracial-daters-are-more-attractive-than-intraracial-daters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36867","title":{"rendered":"The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0265407514541074\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spr.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Social and Personal Relationships<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2014-07-09<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0265407514541074\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0265407514541074<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialecology.uci.edu\/students\/grad\/karenw1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Karen Wu<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of Psychology and Social Behavior<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialecology.uci.edu\/faculty\/cschen\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chuansheng Chen<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Psychology &amp; Social Behavior and Education<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialecology.uci.edu\/faculty\/egreenbe\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ellen Greenberger<\/strong><\/a>, Research Professor and Professor Emerita of Psychology &amp; Social Behavior<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Past research on interracial dating has focused on demographic and adjustment factors while ignoring the traits most valued in romantic partners. We examined whether interracial and intraracial daters differ in the extent to which they possess various desirable attributes. In Study 1, undergraduates estimated their partners\u2019 ratings of them on 27 attributes. A factor analysis yielded <em>attractiveness<\/em> (e.g., physically attractive), <em>cerebral<\/em> (e.g., intelligent), <em>relational<\/em> (e.g., compassionate), and <em>vibrancy<\/em> (e.g., confident) attributes. Compared with intraracial daters, interracial daters reported that their partners saw them more positively on <em>attractiveness<\/em>, <em>cerebral<\/em>, and <em>relational<\/em> attributes (Study 1), rated their partners more positively on <em>attractiveness<\/em> and <em>cerebral<\/em> attributes (Study 2), and were rated by independent coders as more physically attractive (Study 3). Implications are discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/spr.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2014\/07\/08\/0265407514541074.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sweetness of forbidden fruit: Interracial daters are more attractive than intraracial daters Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Published online: 2014-07-09 DOI: 10.1177\/0265407514541074 Karen Wu Department of Psychology and Social Behavior University of California, Irvine Chuansheng Chen, Professor of Psychology &amp; Social Behavior and Education University of California, Irvine Ellen Greenberger, Research Professor and [&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],"tags":[17616,17617,3773,17615],"class_list":["post-36867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","tag-chuansheng-chen","tag-ellen-greenberger","tag-journal-of-social-and-personal-relationships","tag-karen-wu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867","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=36867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}