Year: 2014
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In Experiment I, 18 college students were chosen to rate pictures of 3 models (African/African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian) on how assertive they thought the models would be in a given scenario on a scale of 1-6.Subjects were chosen randomly by their ethnicity as African/African American, Hispanic, or Caucasian.In accordance with the hypothesis, subjects, especially the Hispanic ones, rated the African/African American model as more assertive than either of the Hispanic or Caucasian models.In Experiment II, 29 French-speaking Senegalese people and 13 English-speaking Americans ranked six photos of African/African American women with light or dark skin tones on how likely they would be perceived as aggressive, generous, greedy, courageous, have completed their studies at a university, and considered beautiful in the given scenarios.Overall skin color was not found to be significant for the aggressiveness trait, the courage trait, the generosity trait, or likely to be considered to be beautiful.Yet, overall participants ranked the photos of the lighter skinned women as greedier.Overall and both Senegalese and American participants separately ranked the photos of the light women as more or somewhat more likely to have completed their studies at a university.Americans ranked darker women as being more courageous, more generous, more likely to be considered beautiful.Yet, they ranked the photos of the lighter women as being somewhat more likely to be aggressive, and more likely to be greedy.
Author: Thomas, Kisori
Institution: University of Colorado Boulder
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2257292649