Can race really be erased? A pre-registered replication study.

ABSTRACT: WHEN ENCOUNTERING AN UNKNOWN INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL HAS BEEN SHOWN TO AUTOMATICALLY PROCEED ON THE BASIS OF THREE FUNDAMENTAL DIMENSIONS: People seem to mandatorily encode race, sex and age. In contradiction to this general finding, Kurzban et al. (2001) showed that race encoding is not automatic and inevitable, but rather a byproduct of categorization in terms of coalitions. In particular, they argue and empirically support that when other coalitional information is present, the encoding of race is spectacularly reduced. In the present contribution, we present a replication of the race-erased effect reported by Kurzban et al. First, we give a detailed overview of the hypotheses, the experimental methodology, the derivation of the sample size required to achiev

SUBMITTER: Voorspoels W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4165323 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature