{"id":42851,"date":"2015-09-23T18:46:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42851"},"modified":"2017-03-05T23:18:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T23:18:22","slug":"priming-white-identity-elicits-stereotype-boost-for-biracial-black-white-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42851","title":{"rendered":"Priming White identity elicits stereotype boost for biracial Black-White individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1368430215570504\" target=\"_blank\">Priming White identity elicits stereotype boost for biracial Black-White individuals<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gpi.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Group Processes Intergroup Relations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gpi.sagepub.com\/content\/18\/6.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 18, Number 6<\/a> (November 2015)<br \/>\npages 778-787<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1368430215570504\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1368430215570504<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csrpc.uchicago.edu\/people\/fellows\/sarah_gaither\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah E. Gaither<\/strong><\/a>, Provost\u2019s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar<br \/>\n<em>University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/psychology\/remedioslab\/people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jessica D. Remedios<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jennifer.schultz@tufts.ed\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jennifer R. Schultz<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of Psychology<br \/>\n<i>Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ase.tufts.edu\/psychology\/sommersLab\/people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Samuel R. Sommers<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Psychological threat experienced by students of negatively stereotyped groups impairs test performance. However, stereotype boost can also occur if a positively stereotyped identity is made salient. Biracial individuals, whose racial identities may be associated with both negative and positive testing abilities, have not been examined in this context. Sixty-four biracial Black-White individuals wrote about either their Black or White identity or a neutral topic and completed a verbal <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graduate_Record_Examinations\" target=\"_blank\">Graduate Record Examination<\/a> (GRE) examination described as diagnostic of their abilities. White-<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Priming_(psychology)\" target=\"_blank\">primed<\/a> participants performed significantly better than both Black-primed and control participants. Thus, biracial Black-White individuals experience stereotype boost only when their White identity is made salient.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/gpi.sagepub.com\/content\/18\/6\/778.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychological threat experienced by students of negatively stereotyped groups impairs test performance. However, stereotype boost can also occur if a positively stereotyped identity is made salient. Biracial individuals, whose racial identities may be associated with both negative and positive testing abilities, have not been examined in this context. Sixty-four biracial Black-White individuals wrote about either their Black or White identity or a neutral topic and completed a verbal Graduate Record Examination (GRE) examination described as diagnostic of their abilities. White-primed participants performed significantly better than both Black-primed and control participants. Thus, biracial Black-White individuals experience stereotype boost only when their White identity is made salient.<\/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":[14418,21164,21165,626,15080,279,13298,11816,9692],"class_list":["post-42851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-group-processes-intergroup-relations","tag-jennifer-r-schultz","tag-jennifer-schultz","tag-jessica-d-remedios","tag-jessica-remedios","tag-samuel-r-sommers","tag-samuel-sommers","tag-sarah-e-gaither","tag-sarah-gaither"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42851","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=42851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52066,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42851\/revisions\/52066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}