Can race be replaced? Ecology and race categorization

IF 3 1区 心理学 Q1 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Evolution and Human Behavior Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2024.106630
Oliver Sng , Krystina A. Boyd-Frenkel , Keelah E.G. Williams
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Why do people categorize others by race? Building on recent work integrating affordance management with a life history perspective, we propose that one reason perceivers categorize others by race is because race is a cue to the environments/ecologies in which groups live. In the U.S., because Black and White individuals differentially live in environments that vary in ecological harshness/unpredictability, race may be used as a cue of a person's home ecology. In three experiments (undergraduate and online U.S. samples; N = 1260) with the memory confusion paradigm (“who-said-what”), when American perceivers are presented with information on both a person's race (i.e., Black/White) and the ecologies in which they live (i.e., harsh/hopeful), racial categorization decreases, and ecology categorization emerges (Studies 1–3). Hence, in the minds of perceivers, the ecologies that others come from “replaces” others' race. However, counter to expectations, instructing perceivers to form social impressions of others on traits linked to ecological harshness (i.e., “planfulness”) led to ecology categorization disappearing (Study 3). We discuss implications of our findings for race perception and for social perception at large.

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种族可以被取代吗?生态学与种族分类
为什么人们会根据种族对他人进行分类?在最近将承受力管理与生活史视角相结合的研究基础上,我们提出,感知者根据种族对他人进行分类的原因之一是种族是群体生活环境/生态的线索。在美国,由于黑人和白人的生活环境不同,生态环境的恶劣程度/不可预测性也不同,因此种族可能被用作一个人家庭生态环境的线索。在使用记忆混淆范式("谁说了什么")进行的三项实验(本科生和在线美国样本;N = 1260)中,当向美国感知者展示一个人的种族(即黑人/白人)和生活生态(即恶劣/充满希望)信息时,种族分类减少,生态分类出现(研究 1-3)。因此,在感知者的心目中,他人来自的生态环境 "取代 "了他人的种族。然而,与预期相反的是,指示感知者根据与生态严酷性相关的特征(即 "有计划性")来形成对他人的社会印象会导致生态分类消失(研究 3)。我们将讨论我们的发现对种族感知和整个社会感知的影响。
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Evolution and Human Behavior
Evolution and Human Behavior 生物-行为科学
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审稿时长
82 days
期刊介绍: Evolution and Human Behavior is an interdisciplinary journal, presenting research reports and theory in which evolutionary perspectives are brought to bear on the study of human behavior. It is primarily a scientific journal, but submissions from scholars in the humanities are also encouraged. Papers reporting on theoretical and empirical work on other species will be welcome if their relevance to the human animal is apparent.
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