Subgroup prejudice based on skin color among Hispanics in the United States and Latin America

Two experiments examined the influence of skin color on American Hispanics' and Chileans' attitudes toward their ethnic ingroup and toward subgroups within their ingroup. When implicit attitudes were examined, both American Hispanics and Chileans expressed strong preference for the lighter...

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Published inSocial cognition Vol. 20; no. 3; pp. 198 - 226
Main Authors UHLMANN, Eric, DASGUPTA, Nilanjana, ELGUETA, Angelica, GREENWALD, Anthony G, SWANSON, Lane
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Guilford 01.06.2002
Guilford Press
Subjects
Attitudes
Biological and medical sciences
Chile
Crosscultural Differences
Ethnic Relations
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic people
Prejudice
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Seattle, Washington
Skin
Social attribution, perception and cognition
Social psychology
South America
Chile
United States
North America
America
United States > US
Latin America
Human
Social preference
Social attitude
Color
Skin
Prejudice
Experimental study
Latinamerican
Ethnic group
Social cognition
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Summary:Two experiments examined the influence of skin color on American Hispanics' and Chileans' attitudes toward their ethnic ingroup and toward subgroups within their ingroup. When implicit attitudes were examined, both American Hispanics and Chileans expressed strong preference for the lighter complexioned subgroup over the darker complexioned subgroup within their ethnic group.
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ISSN:0278-016X
1943-2798
DOI:10.1521/soco.20.3.198.21104