{"id":9109,"date":"2010-09-23T02:31:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T02:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9109"},"modified":"2011-10-27T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T19:35:58","slug":"political-partisanship-influences-perception-of-biracial-candidates%e2%80%99-skin-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9109","title":{"rendered":"Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates\u2019 skin tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.0905362106\" target=\"_blank\">Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates\u2019 skin tone<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\" target=\"_blank\">Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/106\/48.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 106, Number 48<\/a> (2009-12-01)<br \/>\npages 20168-20173<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.0905362106\" target=\"_blank\">10.1073\/pnas.0905362106<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.chicagobooth.edu\/eugene.caruso\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eugene M. Caruso<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science<br \/>\n<em>Booth School of Business, University of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tilburguniversity.nl\/webwijs\/show\/?uid=n.l.mead\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole L. Mead<\/a><\/strong>, Researcher<br \/>\nTilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research<br \/>\n<em>Tilburg University, The Netherlands<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.nyu.edu\/balcetis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Balcetis<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>New York University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Edited by<a href=\"http:\/\/www-personal.umich.edu\/~nisbett\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>Richard E. Nisbett<\/strong><\/a>, Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>University of Michigan, Ann Arbor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>People tend to view members of their own political group more positively than members of a competing political group. In this article, we demonstrate that political partisanship influences people\u2019s visual representations of a biracial political candidate\u2019s skin tone. In three studies, participants rated the representativeness of photographs of a hypothetical (Study 1) or real (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a>; Studies 2 and 3) biracial political candidate. Unbeknownst to participants, some of the photographs had been altered to make the candidate\u2019s skin tone either lighter or darker than it was in the original photograph. Participants whose partisanship matched that of the candidate they were evaluating consistently rated the lightened photographs as more representative of the candidate than the darkened photographs, hereas participants whose partisanship did not match that of the candidate showed the opposite pattern. For evaluations of Barack Obama, the extent to which people rated lightened photographs as representative of him was positively correlated with their stated voting intentions and reported voting behavior in the 2008 Presidential election. This effect persisted when controlling for political ideology and racial attitudes. These results suggest that people\u2019s visual representations of others are related to their own preexisting beliefs and to the decisions they make in a consequential context.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/106\/48\/20168.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political partisanship influences perception of biracial candidates\u2019 skin tone Proceedings of the National Acadamy of Sciences Volume 106, Number 48 (2009-12-01) pages 20168-20173 DOI: 10.1073\/pnas.0905362106 Eugene M. Caruso, Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science Booth School of Business, University of Chicago Nicole L. Mead, Researcher Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research Tilburg University, The Netherlands Emily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,394,20],"tags":[3902,3906,3905,3900,3901,3897,3903,3904],"class_list":["post-9109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-emily-balcetis","tag-eugene-caruso","tag-eugene-m-caruso","tag-nicole-l-mead","tag-nicole-mead","tag-proceedings-of-the-national-acadamy-of-sciences","tag-richard-e-nisbett","tag-richard-nisbett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109","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=9109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}