Home
Resource
The impact of interracial romantic couple exposure on conceptions of race
PDF
PDF format is widely accepted and good for printing.
Plug-in required
PDF-1(7.81 MB)
Citation & Export
View Usage Statistics
Staff View

Citation & Export
Hide

Simple citation

Maimon, Melanie Rachel. The impact of interracial romantic couple exposure on conceptions of race. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-3f77-4d25

Export

Click here for information about Citation Management Tools at Rutgers.

Statistics
Hide

Description

TitleThe impact of interracial romantic couple exposure on conceptions of race
NameMaimon, Melanie Rachel (author); Sanchez, Diana T (chair); Hoggard, Lori (internal member); Wilder, David (internal member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2020
Other Date2020-01 (degree)
SubjectPsychology, Romantic relationships, Interracial dating -- Public opinion, Interracial marriage -- Public opinion
Extent1 online resource (vi, 59 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionDespite the rise of interracial dating and marriage in the United States, little to no research has considered the role that exposure to interracial couples may have on people’s beliefs about race. The present experimental study examined whether exposure to Black/White interracial couples, as compared to same-race couples, influences White men and women’s conceptions of race (i.e. racial essentialism, Black/White intergroup attitudes and perceived similarity), and whether the perceived racial essentialism of the couple could, in part, explain shifts in beliefs about race. Heterosexual, White men and women (N = 324) who were exposed to couples with varying racial compositions did not show changes in their own racial attitudes. However, the White members of Black/White interracial couples were perceived as lower in racial essentialism than members of same- race couples. Lower perceived racial essentialism in turn served a mediating role between exposure to couples and participants’ self-reported race-related attitudes. This work suggests that members of interracial couples are perceived as having less essentialist views of race than same-race couples, but more work is still needed to better understand how these perceived attitudinal differences may influence the attitudes of White perceivers exposed to interracial couples.
NoteM.S.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-3f77-4d25
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
Version 8.5.5
Rutgers University Libraries - Copyright ©2024