{"id":49084,"date":"2016-09-13T20:36:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49084"},"modified":"2016-09-13T20:36:52","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:36:52","slug":"%ef%bb%bfstudy-finds-bias-disgust-toward-mixed-race-couples%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49084","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffStudy finds bias, disgust toward mixed-race couples\ufeff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/17\/study-finds-bias-disgust-toward-mixed-race-couples\/\" target=\"_blank\">Study finds bias, disgust toward mixed-race couples<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\" target=\"_blank\">UW Today<\/a><br \/>\n2016-08-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:bach2@uw.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Deborah Bach<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interracial marriage has grown in the United States over the past few decades, and polls show that most Americans are accepting of mixed-race relationships.<\/p>\n<p>A 2012 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewsocialtrends.org\/2012\/02\/16\/the-rise-of-intermarriage\/\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> by the Pew Research Center found that interracial marriages in the U.S. had doubled between 1980 and 2010 to about 15 percent, and just 11 percent of respondents disapproved of interracial marriage.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48745\" target=\"_blank\">new research<\/a> from the University of Washington suggests that reported acceptance of interracial marriage masks deeper feelings of discomfort \u2014 even disgust \u2014 that some feel about mixed-race couples. Published online in July in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/00221031\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Journal of Experimental Social Psychology<\/em><\/a> and co-authored by UW postdoctoral researcher <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/chudac\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlin Hudac<\/a>, the study found that bias against interracial couples is associated with disgust that in turn leads interracial couples to be dehumanized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2016\/08\/17\/study-finds-bias-disgust-toward-mixed-race-couples\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study finds bias, disgust toward mixed-race couples UW Today 2016-08-17 Deborah Bach Interracial marriage has grown in the United States over the past few decades, and polls show that most Americans are accepting of mixed-race relationships. A 2012 study by the Pew Research Center found that interracial marriages in the U.S. had doubled between 1980 [&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":[18602,18603,24799,24798,24969,1511,745],"class_list":["post-49084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-allison-l-skinner","tag-allison-skinner","tag-caitlin-hudac","tag-caitlin-m-hudac","tag-deborah-bach","tag-journal-of-experimental-social-psychology","tag-university-of-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49084","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=49084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49085,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49084\/revisions\/49085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}