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hypodescent: a standalone construct

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Social psychology

the tendency to categorize people of mixed racial background as members of their lower-status parent group.

In social psychology, hypodescent refers to the tendency to categorize people of mixed racial background as members of their lower-status parent group. This meaning comes from Ho (2011) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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Ho, A. K., Sidanius, J., Levin, D. T., & Banaji, M. R. (2011). Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(3), 492-506. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0021562

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