Categorization plays a fundamental role in organizing daily interactions with the social
world. However, there is increasing recognition that social categorization is often complex …

People often view certain ways of classifying people (eg, by gender, race, or ethnicity) as
reflecting real distinctions found in nature. Such categories are viewed as marking …

Researchers studying a range of psychological phenomena (eg, theory of mind, emotion,
stereotyping and prejudice, interpersonal attraction, etc.) sometimes employ photographs of …

Increasing numbers of people in the United States and beyond experience 'race'not as a
single, consistent identity but as a number of conflicting dimensions. This article …

We argue that race and sex categories are psychologically and phenotypically confounded,
affecting social categorizations and their efficiency. Sex categorization of faces was …

Multiracial individuals report that the social pressure of having to “choose” one of their racial
groups is a primary source of psychological conflict. Yet because of their ability to maneuver …

The US Census shows that the racial-ethnic makeup of over 9 million people (2.9% of the
total population) who self-identified as multiracial is extremely diverse. Each multiracial …

With the rise of globalization, culture mixing increasingly occurs not only between groups
and individuals belonging to different cultures but also within individuals. Biculturals, or …

Multiracial individuals represent a growing segment of the population and have been
increasingly the focus of empirical study. Much of this research centers on the perception …

The majority of social perception research to date has focused on perceptually obvious and
prototypical representations of social categories. However, not all people belong to social …