{"id":3893,"date":"2009-12-15T18:40:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T18:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2012-10-19T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T18:00:57","slug":"check-all-that-apply-the-psychological-costs-and-benefits-of-adopting-a-multiracial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3893","title":{"rendered":"Check All That Apply: The Psychological Costs and Benefits of Adopting a Multiracial Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check All That Apply: The Psychological Costs and Benefits of Adopting a Multiracial Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SPSP 2010
\nThe Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
\nRoyal Pavilion 6
\nFriday, 2010-01-29, 09:45-11:00 PST (Local Time)<\/p>\n

Chair: Todd L. Pittinsky<\/a><\/strong>, Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n

Multiracial people have always challenged the conventional notions of racial categorization, exemplified by the recent debate over President Obama<\/a>\u2019s racial identity\u2014was he \u201cToo Black\u201d or \u201cNot Black enough\u201d? Despite his biological multiracial background, he consistently self-identifies as Black. This example illustrates the inherent flexibility in racial identification and raises questions about how this flexibility affects both the target and perceiver. This symposium assembles four diverse programs of research that explore race as a flexible construct. Our findings demonstrate how examining multiracial people can offer novel insight into the relationship between racial identification and discrimination, as well as their links to health and cognitive outcomes.<\/strong> Giamo and colleagues discuss how both perceptions of discrimination and parental ethnicity influence multiracial individuals\u2019 conveyance of their racial identity. Sanchez and colleagues investigate how White ancestry reduces multiracial individuals\u2019 credentials as an ethnic minority, affecting their worthiness as a candidate for affirmative action. Shih and La Plante explore the prevalence of health risk behaviors among monoracial and multiracial individuals. Finally, Pauker and Ambady examine whether multiracial individuals can flexibly adopt different racial identifications to guide preferential \u201cown-race\u201d memory and the involvement of discrimination narratives in such changes in racial identification. These studies introduce new advances in thinking about how perceived experiences with discrimination shape both self and other perceptions of racial identity. Additionally, they highlight that the adoption of a flexible, multiracial identity can engender a complex set of consequences and benefits, including both negative health outcomes and positive cognitive outcomes.<\/p>\n

Talk 1- The Influence of Perceptions of Discrimination and Parental Ethnicity on Multiracial Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lisa S. Giamo<\/a><\/strong>
\nSimon Fraser University<\/em><\/p>\n

Michael T. Schmitt<\/a><\/strong>
\nSimon Fraser University<\/em><\/p>\n

H. Robert Outten<\/a><\/strong>
\nSimon Fraser University<\/em><\/p>\n

Talk 2 – Minority Status Perceptions of Black\/White Biracial Individuals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diana T. Sanchez
\n<\/strong>Rutgers University<\/em><\/p>\n

Jessica J. Good<\/strong>
\nRutgers University<\/em><\/p>\n

George Chavez<\/strong>
\nRutgers University<\/em><\/p>\n

Talk 3 – Health Risk Behaviors of Multiracial and Monoracial Young Adults<\/strong><\/p>\n

Margaret J. Shih<\/strong>
\nUniversity of California, Los Angeles<\/em><\/p>\n

Debi A. LaPlante<\/strong>
\nHarvard Medical School<\/p>\n

Talk 4 – Multiracial Individuals\u2019 Flexible \u201cOwn-Race\u201d Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kristin Pauker<\/strong>
\nStanford University<\/em><\/p>\n

Nalini Ambady
\n<\/strong>Tufts University<\/em><\/p>\n

For complete information on the four talks, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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