{"id":48815,"date":"2016-08-24T22:03:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T22:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48815"},"modified":"2016-08-25T19:53:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T19:53:13","slug":"essentialism-and-racial-bias-jointly-contribute-to-the-categorization-of-multiracial-individuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48815","title":{"rendered":"Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797615596436\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Psychological Science<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/26\/10.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 26, Number 10<\/a> (October 2015)<br \/>\npages 1639-1645<br \/>\nDIO: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797615596436\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0956797615596436<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ncid.umich.edu\/scholars-network\/scholars\/arnold-k-ho\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Arnold K. Ho<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/soroberts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Steven O. Roberts<\/strong><\/a>, Ph.D. Candidate<br \/>\nDepartment of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/gelman-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Susan A. Gelman<\/strong><\/a>, Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Linguistics<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Categorizations of multiracial individuals provide insight into the psychological mechanisms driving social stratification, but few studies have explored the interplay of cognitive and motivational underpinnings of these categorizations. In the present study, we integrated research on racial essentialism (i.e., the belief that race demarcates unobservable and immutable properties) and negativity bias (i.e., the tendency to weigh negative entities more heavily than positive entities) to explain why people might exhibit biases in the categorization of multiracial individuals. As theorized, racial essentialism, both dispositional (Study 1) and experimentally induced (Study 2), led to the categorization of Black-White multiracial individuals as Black, but only among individuals evaluating Black people more negatively than White people. These findings demonstrate how fundamental cognitive and motivational biases interact to influence the categorization of multiracial individuals.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/pss.sagepub.com\/content\/26\/10\/1639.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals Psychological Science Volume 26, Number 10 (October 2015) pages 1639-1645 DIO: 10.1177\/0956797615596436 Arnold K. Ho, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Organizational Studies University of Michigan Steven O. Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Psychology University of Michigan Susan A. Gelman, Distinguished University Professor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,394,20],"tags":[4685,618,2201,21072,21073,21070,21071],"class_list":["post-48815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-arnold-ho","tag-arnold-k-ho","tag-psychological-science","tag-steven-o-roberts","tag-steven-roberts","tag-susan-a-gelman","tag-susan-gelman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48815","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=48815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48816,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48815\/revisions\/48816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}