At the Crossroads of Race: Racial Ambiguity and Biracial Identification Influence Psychological Essentialist Thinking

Behavior ( = .84), and belief in Protestant 's occupational ethics (66 = .66). These scales are not so

Ethnic identity Finally, participant 's response to the racial status scale was examined. (A) a single race, (b) a race of a different race, (c) a race of different race, but a single experience, (d) racial discrimination, (e) meaningless The combination of ethnic recognition choices was labeled. We grouped the last two categories into one category because only two participants selected the others. As mentioned above, participants in both conditions have the opportunity to list all of their ethnic backgrounds before completing this form. We will consider the response of this project as a measure of the impact of recent and potentially important identity denial experiences on the conceptualization of the participant's national identity.

Ethnic identity participants completed measures to require selecting the closest ID at that point in the range from 1 (black) to 4 (hybrid) to 7 (white). While this racial identity measure may be a bit odd for a person, we need a measure to accurately capture the self classification of one ethnic and multi ethnic participant. In order to verify this scale, participants also completed the group identification indicator of Tropp and Wright (2001). It used the visual scale of the overlapping circles of self and group members. Participants completed this measurement for each of the three groups (ie black, mixed, white).

Identification of ethnic samples tends to be recognized by blacks. Although this may be a feature of this sample, other studies have found that even when a mixed-blooded person adopts the mobile's mixed-blood position, they often feel that they are closer to black than white. Rockquemore & Brunsma, 2002). Importantly, we found a difference in the downstream memory of a mixed-blooded individual based on the relative difference in recognition. This study highlights the need to expand research on identity and social classification.