Introducing the Sociopolitical Motive × Intergroup Threat Model to Understand How Monoracial Perceivers' Sociopolitical Motives Influence Their Categorization of Multiracial People

Researchers have used social dominance, system justification, authoritarianism, and social identity theories to understand how monoracial perceivers' sociopolitical motives influence their categorization of multiracial people. The result has been a growing understanding of how particular sociopolitical motives and contexts affect categorization, without a unifying perspective to integrate these insights. We review evidence supporting each theory's predictions concerning how monoracial perceivers categorize multiracial people who combine their ingroup with an outgroup, with attention to the moderating role of perceiver group status. We find most studies cannot arbitrate between theories of categorization and reveal additional gaps in the literature. To advance this research area, we introduce the sociopolitical motive × intergroup threat model of racial categorization that (a) clarifies which sociopolitical motives interact with which intergroup threats to predict categorization and (b) highlights the role of perceiver group status. Furthermore, we consider how our model can help understand phenomena beyond multiracial categorization.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc - 24(2020), 3 vom: 03. Aug., Seite 260-286

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ho, Arnold K [VerfasserIn]
Kteily, Nour S [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Jacqueline M [VerfasserIn]

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Volltext

Themen:

Group status
Intergroup relations
Intergroup threat
Journal Article
Multiracial
Racial categorization
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Sociopolitical motives

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 05.07.2021

Date Revised 07.12.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/1088868320917051

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM31031805X