{"id":36935,"date":"2014-08-29T18:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T18:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36935"},"modified":"2014-11-11T13:14:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:14:02","slug":"direct-to-consumer-racial-admixture-tests-and-beliefs-about-essential-racial-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36935","title":{"rendered":"Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0190272514529439\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spq.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Social Psychology Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spq.sagepub.com\/content\/77\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 77, Number 3<\/a> (September 2014)<br \/>\npages 296-318<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0190272514529439\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0190272514529439<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asp.cumc.columbia.edu\/facdb\/profile_list.asp?uni=jcp13&amp;DepAffil=HSS\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jo C. Phelan<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/asp.cumc.columbia.edu\/facdb\/profile_list.asp?uni=bgl1&amp;DepAffil=HSS\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bruce G. Link<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University, New York, New York; New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/content\/sarah-zelner\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah Zelner<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailman.columbia.edu\/our-faculty\/profile?uni=lhy2001\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lawrence H. Yang<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Epidemiology<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University, New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although at first relatively disinterested in race, modern genomic research has increasingly turned attention to racial variations. We examine a prominent example of this focus\u2014direct-to-consumer racial admixture tests\u2014and ask how information about the methods and results of these tests in news media may affect beliefs in racial differences. The reification hypothesis proposes that by emphasizing a genetic basis for race, thereby reifying race as a biological reality, the tests increase beliefs that whites and blacks are essentially different. The challenge hypothesis suggests that by describing differences between racial groups as continua rather than sharp demarcations, the results produced by admixture tests break down racial categories and reduce beliefs in racial differences. A nationally representative survey experiment (<em>N<\/em> = 526) provided clear support for the reification hypothesis. <strong>The results suggest that an unintended consequence of the genomic revolution may be to reinvigorate age-old beliefs in essential racial differences.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/spq.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2014\/08\/01\/0190272514529439.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Direct-to-Consumer Racial Admixture Tests and Beliefs About Essential Racial Differences Social Psychology Quarterly Volume 77, Number 3 (September 2014) pages 296-318 DOI: 10.1177\/0190272514529439 Jo C. Phelan, Associate Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences Columbia University, New York, New York; New York State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,394],"tags":[14277,14278,14279,14280,17644,17645,17643,833],"class_list":["post-36935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-bruce-g-link","tag-bruce-link","tag-jo-c-phelan","tag-jo-phelan","tag-lawrence-h-yang","tag-lawrence-yang","tag-sarah-zelner","tag-social-psychology-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935","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=36935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}