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Essentializing race: Its implications on racial categorization.
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The role of racial essentialism is investigated in influencing several important psychological aspects of racial categorization and its implications for understanding and managing interracial relations in the United States are discussed.Abstract:
Racial classification has drawn increasing attention in public discourse; it intertwines with issues related to racialized perceptions. However, few social psychological studies have systematically examined racial categorization processes and their implications for interracial relations. In 5 studies, we investigated the role of racial essentialism in influencing several important psychological aspects of racial categorization. Results linked the belief in racial essentialism to an increased tendency to engage in race-based categorization (Studies 1-3) and greater sensitivity in discerning racial group membership (Studies 4-5). These results are discussed in terms of their implications for understanding and managing interracial relations in the United Statesread more
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Multiple Identities in Social Perception and Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities
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The Motivated Gatekeeper of Our Minds: New Directions in Need for Closure Theory and Research
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How language shapes the cultural inheritance of categories
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Essentialism and Racial Bias Jointly Contribute to the Categorization of Multiracial Individuals
TL;DR: Research on racial essentialism and negativity bias are integrated to explain why people might exhibit biases in the categorization of multiracial individuals and demonstrate how fundamental cognitive and motivational biases interact to influence the categorizations of multIRacial individuals.
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A Perceptual Pathway to Bias: Interracial Exposure Reduces Abrupt Shifts in Real-Time Race Perception That Predict Mixed-Race Bias
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that interracial exposure shapes the dynamics through which racial categories activate and resolve during real-time perceptions, and these initial perceptual dynamics, in turn, may help drive evaluative biases against mixed-race individuals.
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