{"id":40773,"date":"2015-04-06T17:16:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40773"},"modified":"2015-04-06T17:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:16:25","slug":"exposure-to-racial-ambiguity-influences-lay-theories-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40773","title":{"rendered":"Exposure to Racial Ambiguity Influences Lay Theories of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1948550614562844\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Exposure to Racial Ambiguity Influences Lay Theories of Race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spp.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social Psychological and Personality Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/spp.sagepub.com\/content\/6\/4.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 6, Number 4<\/a> (May 2015)<br \/>\npages 382-390<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1948550614562844\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1948550614562844<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/psych.rutgers.edu\/faculty-profiles-a-contacts\/112-diana-sanchez\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Diana T. Sanchez<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/danielleyoung\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Danielle M. Young<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu\/faculty\/?dept=psy&amp;faculty=kpauker@hawaii.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kristin Pauker<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Hawaii, Manoa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Biological lay theories of race have proven to have pernicious consequences for interracial relations, yet few studies have examined how intergroup contact itself (particularly with those who naturalistically challenge these conceptions) affects beliefs about race. Three studies (a correlational study, an interaction study, and an experimental study) examine whether exposure to racially ambiguous individuals reduces Whites\u2019 biological lay theories of race across time. Study 1 demonstrates that increased exposure to racial ambiguity across 2 weeks reduced White individuals\u2019 biological lay theories. Study 2 shows that Whites who interacted in a laboratory setting with a racially ambiguous individual were less likely to endorse biological lay theories, an effect that sustained for 2 weeks. Study 3 finds that the reduction in biological lay theories after exposure to racial ambiguity is mediated by the tendency for Whites\u2019 lay theories of race to conform to beliefs they presume racially ambiguous individuals hold.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/spp.sagepub.com\/content\/6\/4\/382.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposure to Racial Ambiguity Influences Lay Theories of Race Social Psychological and Personality Science Volume 6, Number 4 (May 2015) pages 382-390 DOI: 10.1177\/1948550614562844 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Danielle M. Young Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Kristin Pauker, Assistant Professor of Psychology University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394],"tags":[15249,15250,286,274,276,18778],"class_list":["post-40773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-danielle-m-young","tag-danielle-young","tag-diana-sanchez","tag-diana-t-sanchez","tag-kristin-pauker","tag-social-psychological-and-personality-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773","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=40773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}