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Exploring Multiracial Individuals’ Comfort with Intimate Interracial Relationships
Courtney M. Bonam,Margaret Shih +1 more
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The relationship between a heightened awareness of race as a social construct and comfort in interracial relationships across varying levels of intimacy among multiracial and monoracial individuals is explored.Abstract:
This article explores the relationship between a heightened awareness of race as a social construct and comfort in interracial relationships across varying levels of intimacy among multiracial and monoracial individuals. Study 1 finds that multiracial individuals express higher levels of comfort in intimate interracial relationships than monoracial White and minority individuals. Study 2 finds that belief in race as a social construction mediates the differences between monoracial and multiracial individuals in their comfort in intimate interracial relationships. Implications of these findings for interracial relationships are discussed.read more
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Multiple Identities in Social Perception and Interaction: Challenges and Opportunities
TL;DR: This review examines recent research on the perception and experience of the complex, multifaceted identities that both complicate and enrich the authors' lives and considers how opportunities that emerge from the possession of identities that include multiple distinct or overlapping groups might benefit both perceivers and targets.
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When Race Becomes Even More Complex: Toward Understanding the Landscape of Multiracial Identity and Experiences
Margaret Shih,Diana T. Sanchez +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors bring together research and theory in psychology, sociology, education, culture studies, and public policy surrounding multiracial identity and introduce new advances in thinking about race, intergroup relations, and racial identity.
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“Mixed” Results Multiracial Research and Identity Explorations
TL;DR: In this paper, the behavioral and cognitive outcomes linked to being multiracial and pinpoints possible moderators that may affect these outcomes are discussed. But they do not consider the effect of having multiple identities.
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Challenges and resilience in the lives of urban, multiracial adults: an instrument development study.
TL;DR: The MCRS was developed using a nationwide Internet sample of urban, multiracial adults and revealed 4 Challenge factors and 2 Resilience factors (Appreciation of Human Differences and Multiracial Pride).
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A review of multiracial malleability: Identity, categorization, and shifting racial attitudes
TL;DR: This article reviewed research on multiracial identity and perceptions of multi-acial individuals as two domains where researchers have documented evidence of the flexible nature of social identities and social categorization, and they provided evidence that studying multiiracial perceivers and targets helps reveal that race changes across situations, time, and depending on a number of top-down factors (e.g., expectations, stereotypes, and cultural norms).
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