Racially Ambiguous Faces Sequential Priming Task

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eve Willadsen-Jensen ◽  
Tiffany A. Ito
Keyword(s):  
Priming Task ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Ambiguous Faces ◽  
Sequential Priming

Seeing Similarity or Distance?

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leigh Wilton ◽  
Diana T. Sanchez ◽  
Lisa Giamo
Keyword(s):  
Social Distance ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Perceived Similarity ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intergroup Perception ◽  
Intergroup Perceptions ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Biracial individuals threaten the distinctiveness of racial groups because they have mixed-race ancestry, but recent findings suggest that exposure to biracial-labeled, racially ambiguous faces may positively influence intergroup perception by reducing essentialist thinking among Whites ( Young, Sanchez, & Wilton, 2013 ). However, biracial exposure may not lead to positive intergroup perceptions for Whites who are highly racially identified and thus motivated to preserve the social distance between racial groups. We exposed Whites to racially ambiguous Asian/White biracial faces and measured the perceived similarity between Asians and Whites. We found that exposure to racially ambiguous, biracial-labeled targets may improve perceptions of intergroup similarity, but only for Whites who are less racially identified. Results are discussed in terms of motivated intergroup perception.

A Meta-Analytic Review of Hypodescent Patterns in Categorizing Multiracial and Racially Ambiguous Targets

2020 ◽  
pp. 014616722094132
Author(s):  
Danielle M. Young ◽  
Diana T. Sanchez ◽  
Kristin Pauker ◽  
Sarah E. Gaither
Keyword(s):  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Analytic Review ◽  
Subgroup Analyses ◽  
Lower Status ◽  
Binary Choices ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Research addressing the increasing multiracial population (i.e., identifying with two or more races) is rapidly expanding. This meta-analysis ( k = 55) examines categorization patterns consistent with hypodescent, or the tendency to categorize multiracial targets as their lower status racial group. Subgroup analyses suggest that operationalization of multiracial (e.g., presenting photos of racially ambiguous faces, or ancestry information sans picture), target gender, and categorization measurement (e.g., selecting from binary choices: Black or White; or multiple categorization options: Black, White, or multiracial) moderated categorization patterns. Operationalizing multiracial as ancestry, male targets, and measuring categorization with binary or multiple Likert-type scale outcomes supported hypodescent. However, categorizing multiracial targets as not their lower status racial group occurred for female targets or multiple categorization options. Evidence was mixed on whether perceiver and target race were related to categorization patterns. These results point to future directions for understanding categorization processes and multiracial perception.

On the ideology of hypodescent: Political conservatism predicts categorization of racially ambiguous faces as Black

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1196-1203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy R. Krosch ◽  
Leslie Berntsen ◽  
David M. Amodio ◽  
John T. Jost ◽  
Jay J. Van Bavel
Keyword(s):  
Political Conservatism ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Social Belonging Motivates Categorization of Racially Ambiguous Faces

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Gaither ◽  
Kristin Pauker ◽  
Michael L. Slepian ◽  
Samuel R. Sommers
Keyword(s):  
Social Belonging ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Whites Are Granted the American Identity More Swiftly than Asians

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 192-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Devos ◽  
Leakhena Heng
Keyword(s):  
Executive Control ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Training Phase ◽  
Process Dissociation ◽  
Priming Task ◽  
Sequential Priming

The present research strives to identify one possible mechanism accounting for the American = White effect. In three experiments, a sequential priming task was used to examine the influence of Asian or White faces on the categorization of American or foreign landmarks. Process dissociation analyses revealed a stronger automatic tendency to respond “American” after White faces than after Asian faces when executive control failed (Experiments 1–3). This effect was not moderated by a manipulation of processing time (Experiment 2); it was, however, eradicated after completion of a training phase counteracting the American = White linkage (Experiment 3). The findings suggest that the pervasive propensity to equate American with White operates as an automatic accessibility bias.

scholarly journals Sequential priming in the detection of the facial expression: New approach in the study of emotional detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-196
Author(s):  
Fernando Gordillo León ◽  
Miguel Ángel Pérez Nieto ◽  
Lilia Mestas Hernández ◽  
José M. Arana Martínez ◽  
Gabriela Castillo Parra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Priming Task ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Different Order ◽  
Speed And Accuracy ◽  
Detection Speed ◽  
Sequential Priming

AbstractThe effective detection of those facial expressions that alert us to a possible threat is adaptive. Hence the reason that studies on face sampling have involved analysing how this process occurs, with evidence to show that the eyes focus mainly on the upper side of the face; nevertheless, no clear determination has been made of the relationship between the efficacy in detection (speed and accuracy) and the way in which emotions are visually tracked on the face. A sequential priming task was therefore held in which the four quadrants of the face were displayed consecutively, for 50 ms each one, and in a different order (24 sequences). The results reveal a quicker response when the priming sequence begins in the upper part, continues downward to the right-hand side of the face, and then follows an anti-clockwise direction. The results are discussed in the light of studies using the Eye-Tracking technique.

scholarly journals Falling through the cracks: Modeling the formation of social category boundaries

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0247562
Author(s):  
Vicky Chuqiao Yang ◽  
Tamara van der Does ◽  
Henrik Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
System Model ◽  
Joint Influence ◽  
Party Members ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Continuous Attribute ◽  
Attribute Space ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Social categorizations divide people into “us” and “them”, often along continuous attributes such as political ideology or skin color. This division results in both positive consequences, such as a sense of community, and negative ones, such as group conflict. Further, individuals in the middle of the spectrum can fall through the cracks of this categorization process and are seen as out-group by individuals on either side of the spectrum, becoming inbetweeners. Here, we propose a quantitative, dynamical-system model that studies the joint influence of cognitive and social processes. We model where two social groups draw the boundaries between “us” and ‘them” on a continuous attribute. Our model predicts that both groups tend to draw a more restrictive boundary than the middle of the spectrum. As a result, each group sees the individuals in the middle of the attribute space as an out-group. We test this prediction using U.S. political survey data on how political independents are perceived by registered party members as well as existing experiments on the perception of racially ambiguous faces, and find support.

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