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Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals.


ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Ho AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4943871 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals.

Ho Arnold K AK   Roberts Steven O SO   Gelman Susan A SA  

Psychological science 20150901 10


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 w  ...[more]

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