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SUBMITTER: Ho AK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4943871 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]