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Arnold K Ho

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ID169552
NAMEArnold K Ho
GIVEN NAMESArnold K
FAMILY NAMEHo
SIGNATUREHO A K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Michigan
ORCID0000-0002-2379-0282
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS446
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX9
  • The Role of Egalitarian Ideology in System-Challenging Collective Action Among Members of Dominant and Marginalized Racial Groups

    Open Access•Nadia Vossoughi, Wilson N Merrell et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2026

    Past research on collective action focuses on how identification with a marginalized group or with a politicized identity motivates collective action. We propose that egalitarian ideology —a preference for group-based equality and opposition to hierarchy—can help explain why both marginalized and dominant group members can be motivated to engage in system-challenging collective action. In Studies 1A–1C, among Black, Asian, and White Americans, eg…

  • Looking White But Feeling Asian: The Role of Perceived Membership Permeability and Perceived Discrimination in Multiracial-Monoracial Alliances

    Open Access•Wilson N Merrell, Nadia Vossoughi et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2026

    Relatively little is known about the extent to which multiracial people stand in solidarity with their parent groups. Here, we draw from social identity theory to examine predictors of Asian-White multiracial people’s solidarity with Asian and White people, Asian monoracial people’s meta-perceptions of these solidarity levels, and consequences of these meta-perceptions for intergroup relations. Studies 1a–b show that Asian-White multiracial peopl…

  • Beliefs about what disadvantaged groups would do with power shape advantaged groups’ (un)willingness to relinquish it

    Frank Kachanoff, Jennifer Sheehy‐skeffington et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2025

    Dominant groups often resist possible changes to the hierarchical status quo. Might such tendencies be partly rooted in negative-yet potentially malleable-meta-beliefs about how disempowered groups would use power if they gained control? We investigate these questions across three studies and eight independent samples (Total N = 7,460 analyzed responses) in the context of Black-White relations in the United States. Specifically, we examine White …

  • Using the sociopolitical motive × intergroup threat model of intergroup relations to understand opposition to policies that promote social equality

    Open Access•Arnold K Ho, Nour S Kteily•ARTICLE•Social Issues and Policy Review•2024•References: 30

    In the last several decades, social psychologists have identified several social and political motives that undergird conflict between groups (e.g., racial group conflict), and the conditions under which individuals holding these motives are most likely to oppose policies that promote greater equality between groups. In the current article, we introduce a framework that integrates these insights—the sociopolitical motive × intergroup threat model…

  • Changing beliefs about gender: The relation between contact with gender nonconforming individuals and gender essentialism

    Rachel D Fine, A Gelman et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology and Sexuality•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 19

    Increasing numbers of individuals are openly identifying outside of the gender binary, which may have broader effects on how people view gender. Little research has examined how contact with gender nonconforming (GNC) individuals may influence others’ conceptualisations of gender. Through seven studies with 2,547 participants, we found that contact with GNC individuals corresponded to reduced gender essentialism. In two correlational studies, we …

  • Monoracial perceivers’ sociopolitical motives and their inclusion versus exclusion of multiracial people

    Arnold K Ho, Nour S Kteily•ARTICLE•European Review of Social…•2022

    Many societies today are organised as race-based social hierarchies, with clear boundaries between racial groups at the top versus bottom. The growth of multiracial populations has been heralded as holding the potential to blur existing group boundaries. But whether multiracial people do blur boundaries depends critically on how monoracial perceivers categorise them. We review our research programme on how monoracial perceivers’ categorisation of…

  • United we stand? Perceived loyalty of dual nationals, multiracial people, and dual state residents

    Open Access•Rachel D Fine, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    As multiracial children of foreign-born parents, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama embody diversity in politics for many perceivers. Yet some have also questioned their loyalty to their respective groups. We explored perceptions of dual group members’ (DGM; dual nationals, multiracial people, and dual state residents) loyalty among first-party (those who share a group membership with a DGM target) and third-party perceivers (those who do not). Studi…

  • Should Individuals Think Like Their Group? A Descriptive-to-Prescriptive Tendency Toward Group-Based Beliefs

    Open Access•Steven O Robert, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2021

    Across three pre-registered studies with children (ages 4–9) and adults (N = 303), we examined whether how a group is predicted evaluations of how group members should be (i.e., a descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency), under conditions in which the descriptive group norms entailed beliefs that were fact-based (Study 1), opinion-based (Study 2), and ideology-based (Study 3). Overall, participants tended to disapprove of individuals with beliefs th…

  • Beyond Black and White: Conceptualizing and essentializing Black–White identity

    Steven O Robert, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Cultural Diversity & Ethnic…•2021•Cited by: 3

    Our data shed new light on the complexity of race concepts and essentialism and advance the psychological understanding of Black-White identity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

  • The Roles of Group Status and Group Membership in the Practice of Hypodescent

    Open Access•Steven O Robert, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2020

    Hypodescent emerged in U.S. history to reinforce racial hierarchy. Research suggests that among contemporary U.S. adults, hypodescent continues to shape social perception. Among U.S. children, however, hypodescent is less likely to be endorsed. Here, we tested for hypodescent by introducing U.S. children (ages 4–9) and adults (N = 273) to hierarchically ordered novel groups (one was high status and another was low status) and then to a child who …

  • Which group to credit (and blame)? Whites make attributions about White-minority biracials’ successes and failures based on their own (anti-)egalitarianism and ethnic identification

    Open Access•Kaylene J McClanahan, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    Individuals’ perceptions of biracials can vary based on the motives of the perceiver. Here, we examine how two factors—perceivers’ group-level identification motives and their system-level beliefs about the desirability of hierarchy (i.e., social dominance orientation)—predict the degree to which they attribute a biracial target’s successes or failures to that target’s White versus minority background. Across three studies examining different con…

  • Whose Side Are You On? Asian Americans’ Mistrust of Asian–White Biracials Predicts More Exclusion From the Ingroup

    Open Access•Jacqueline M Chen, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 5

    We investigated Asian Americans' perceptions of Asian-White biracials. Because the Asian/White boundary may be more permeable than other minority/White boundaries, we reasoned that Asian Americans are more likely than Black Americans to be skeptical of biracials, perceiving that biracials would prefer to identify as White and would be disloyal to Asians, consequently categorizing them as more outgroup. We further reasoned that Asian Americans' co…

  • Does this Smile Make me Look White? Exploring the Effects of Emotional Expressions on the Categorization of Multiracial Children

    Steven O Robert, Kerrie C Leonard et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cognition and Culture•2017•References: 14

    Previous research shows that Multiracial adults are categorized as more Black than White (i.e., Black-categorization bias), especially when they have angry facial expressions. The present research examined the extent to which these categorization patterns extended to Multiracial children, with both White and Black participants. Consistent with past research, both White and Black participants categorized Multiracial children as more Black than Whi…

  • Predisposed to prejudice but responsive to intergroup contact? Testing the unique benefits of intergroup contact across different types of individual differences

    Open Access•Nour S Kteily, Gordon Hodson et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 12

    Recent research demonstrates that intergroup contact effectively reduces prejudice even among prejudice-prone persons. But some assert that evidence regarding the benefits of contact among prejudice-prone individuals is “mixed,” particularly for those higher in social dominance orientation (SDO), one of the field’s most important individual differences. Problematically, person variables are typically considered in isolation despite being intercor…

  • Hierarchy in the eye of the beholder: (Anti-)egalitarianism shapes perceived levels of social inequality

    Nour S Kteily, Jennifer Sheehy‐skeffington et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 17

    Debate surrounding the issue of inequality and hierarchy between social groups has become increasingly prominent in recent years. At the same time, individuals disagree about the extent to which inequality between advantaged and disadvantaged groups exists. Whereas prior work has examined the ways in which individuals legitimize (or delegitimize) inequality as a function of their motivations, we consider whether individuals' orientation toward gr…

  • You’re one of us: Black Americans’ use of hypodescent and its association with egalitarianism

    Arnold K Ho, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 16

    Research on multiracial categorization has focused on majority group social perceivers (i.e., White Americans), demonstrating that they (a) typically categorize Black-White multiracials according to a rule of hypodescent, associating them more with their lower status parent group than their higher status parent group, and (b) do so at least in part to preserve the hierarchical status quo. The current work examines whether members of an ethnic min…

  • The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO7 scale

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2015•Cited by: 250•References: 22

    A new conceptualization and measurement of social dominance orientation-individual differences in the preference for group based hierarchy and inequality-is introduced. In contrast to previous measures of social dominance orientation that were designed to be unidimensional, the new measure (SDO7) embeds theoretically grounded subdimensions of SDO-SDO-Dominance (SDO-D) and SDO-Egalitarianism (SDO-E). SDO-D constitutes a preference for systems of g…

  • You're Inferior and Not Worth Our Concern: The Interface Between Empathy and Social Dominance Orientation

    Open Access•Jim Sidanius, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2013

    OBJECTIVE: This project was directed at examination of the potential reciprocal relationship between empathy and social dominance orientation (SDO), with the purpose of testing the predictions from Duckitt's highly influential dual process model of prejudice, and further examining the validity of the mere effect view of social dominance orientation. METHOD: To examine this relationship, the authors employed cross-lagged structural equation modeli…

  • Status boundary enforcement and the categorization of black–white biracials

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2013•Cited by: 22•References: 20

  • Social Dominance Orientation: Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes

    Open Access•Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2012

    Social dominance orientation (SDO) is one of the most powerful predictors of intergroup attitudes and behavior. Although SDO works well as a unitary construct, some analyses suggest it might consist of two complementary dimensions--SDO-Dominance (SDO-D), or the preference for some groups to dominate others, and SDO-Egalitarianism (SDO-E), a preference for nonegalitarian intergroup relations. Using seven samples from the United States and Israel, …

  • Hierarchy in the mind: The predictive power of social dominance orientation across social contexts and domains

    Open Access•Nour S Kteily, Nour Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2011•Cited by: 30•References: 27

  • Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2011•Cited by: 49

    Individuals who qualify equally for membership in two racial groups provide a rare window into social categorization and perception. In 5 experiments, we tested the extent to which a rule of hypodescent, whereby biracial individuals are assigned the status of their socially subordinate parent group, would govern perceptions of Asian-White and Black-White targets. In Experiment 1, in spite of posing explicit questions concerning Asian-White and Bl…

  • Preserving positive identities: Public and private regard for one's ingroup and susceptibility to stereotype threat

    Open Access•Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    The current study examines the effect of racial regard—feelings of positivity or negativity toward African Americans—on stereotype threat. Forty participants at Harvard University responded to questions concerning their social attitudes and returned later to take a difficult verbal test. This study replicated the well-established stereotype threat effect, and found evidence that both public regard (judgments concerning how others view Blacks) and…

  • The Space between Us and Them: Perceptions of Status Differences

    Open Access•Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Kimberly Kahn et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2009•Cited by: 17•References: 7

    The current study examines perceived status differences among ethnic groups. Consistent with a group dominance perspective, three samples of American university students revealed that perceived ethnic status differences increased to the extent that individuals had low ethnic status, perceived their society to be unfair, and were lower on social dominance orientation. In addition, social dominance orientation moderated the relationship between per…

  • Political Orientation and Ideological Inconsistencies: (Dis)comfort with Value Tradeoffs

    Open Access•Clayton R Critcher, Michaela Huber et al.•ARTICLE•Social Justice Research•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 23

  • The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO7 scale

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2015•Cited by: 250•References: 22

    A new conceptualization and measurement of social dominance orientation-individual differences in the preference for group based hierarchy and inequality-is introduced. In contrast to previous measures of social dominance orientation that were designed to be unidimensional, the new measure (SDO7) embeds theoretically grounded subdimensions of SDO-SDO-Dominance (SDO-D) and SDO-Egalitarianism (SDO-E). SDO-D constitutes a preference for systems of g…

  • Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2011•Cited by: 49

    Individuals who qualify equally for membership in two racial groups provide a rare window into social categorization and perception. In 5 experiments, we tested the extent to which a rule of hypodescent, whereby biracial individuals are assigned the status of their socially subordinate parent group, would govern perceptions of Asian-White and Black-White targets. In Experiment 1, in spite of posing explicit questions concerning Asian-White and Bl…

  • Hierarchy in the mind: The predictive power of social dominance orientation across social contexts and domains

    Open Access•Nour S Kteily, Nour Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2011•Cited by: 30•References: 27

  • Status boundary enforcement and the categorization of black–white biracials

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2013•Cited by: 22•References: 20

  • Hierarchy in the eye of the beholder: (Anti-)egalitarianism shapes perceived levels of social inequality

    Nour S Kteily, Jennifer Sheehy‐skeffington et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 17

    Debate surrounding the issue of inequality and hierarchy between social groups has become increasingly prominent in recent years. At the same time, individuals disagree about the extent to which inequality between advantaged and disadvantaged groups exists. Whereas prior work has examined the ways in which individuals legitimize (or delegitimize) inequality as a function of their motivations, we consider whether individuals' orientation toward gr…

  • The Space between Us and Them: Perceptions of Status Differences

    Open Access•Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Kimberly Kahn et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2009•Cited by: 17•References: 7

    The current study examines perceived status differences among ethnic groups. Consistent with a group dominance perspective, three samples of American university students revealed that perceived ethnic status differences increased to the extent that individuals had low ethnic status, perceived their society to be unfair, and were lower on social dominance orientation. In addition, social dominance orientation moderated the relationship between per…

  • You’re one of us: Black Americans’ use of hypodescent and its association with egalitarianism

    Arnold K Ho, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 16

    Research on multiracial categorization has focused on majority group social perceivers (i.e., White Americans), demonstrating that they (a) typically categorize Black-White multiracials according to a rule of hypodescent, associating them more with their lower status parent group than their higher status parent group, and (b) do so at least in part to preserve the hierarchical status quo. The current work examines whether members of an ethnic min…

  • Whose Side Are You On? Asian Americans’ Mistrust of Asian–White Biracials Predicts More Exclusion From the Ingroup

    Open Access•Jacqueline M Chen, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 5

    We investigated Asian Americans' perceptions of Asian-White biracials. Because the Asian/White boundary may be more permeable than other minority/White boundaries, we reasoned that Asian Americans are more likely than Black Americans to be skeptical of biracials, perceiving that biracials would prefer to identify as White and would be disloyal to Asians, consequently categorizing them as more outgroup. We further reasoned that Asian Americans' co…

  • Predisposed to prejudice but responsive to intergroup contact? Testing the unique benefits of intergroup contact across different types of individual differences

    Open Access•Nour S Kteily, Gordon Hodson et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 12

    Recent research demonstrates that intergroup contact effectively reduces prejudice even among prejudice-prone persons. But some assert that evidence regarding the benefits of contact among prejudice-prone individuals is “mixed,” particularly for those higher in social dominance orientation (SDO), one of the field’s most important individual differences. Problematically, person variables are typically considered in isolation despite being intercor…

  • Preserving positive identities: Public and private regard for one's ingroup and susceptibility to stereotype threat

    Open Access•Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    The current study examines the effect of racial regard—feelings of positivity or negativity toward African Americans—on stereotype threat. Forty participants at Harvard University responded to questions concerning their social attitudes and returned later to take a difficult verbal test. This study replicated the well-established stereotype threat effect, and found evidence that both public regard (judgments concerning how others view Blacks) and…

  • Changing beliefs about gender: The relation between contact with gender nonconforming individuals and gender essentialism

    Rachel D Fine, A Gelman et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology and Sexuality•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 19

    Increasing numbers of individuals are openly identifying outside of the gender binary, which may have broader effects on how people view gender. Little research has examined how contact with gender nonconforming (GNC) individuals may influence others’ conceptualisations of gender. Through seven studies with 2,547 participants, we found that contact with GNC individuals corresponded to reduced gender essentialism. In two correlational studies, we …

  • Beyond Black and White: Conceptualizing and essentializing Black–White identity

    Steven O Robert, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Cultural Diversity & Ethnic…•2021•Cited by: 3

    Our data shed new light on the complexity of race concepts and essentialism and advance the psychological understanding of Black-White identity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Which group to credit (and blame)? Whites make attributions about White-minority biracials’ successes and failures based on their own (anti-)egalitarianism and ethnic identification

    Open Access•Kaylene J McClanahan, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    Individuals’ perceptions of biracials can vary based on the motives of the perceiver. Here, we examine how two factors—perceivers’ group-level identification motives and their system-level beliefs about the desirability of hierarchy (i.e., social dominance orientation)—predict the degree to which they attribute a biracial target’s successes or failures to that target’s White versus minority background. Across three studies examining different con…

  • United we stand? Perceived loyalty of dual nationals, multiracial people, and dual state residents

    Open Access•Rachel D Fine, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    As multiracial children of foreign-born parents, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama embody diversity in politics for many perceivers. Yet some have also questioned their loyalty to their respective groups. We explored perceptions of dual group members’ (DGM; dual nationals, multiracial people, and dual state residents) loyalty among first-party (those who share a group membership with a DGM target) and third-party perceivers (those who do not). Studi…

  • Political Orientation and Ideological Inconsistencies: (Dis)comfort with Value Tradeoffs

    Open Access•Clayton R Critcher, Michaela Huber et al.•ARTICLE•Social Justice Research•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 23

  • Preserving positive identities: Public and private regard for one's ingroup and susceptibility to stereotype threat

    Open Access•Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2009•Cited by: 6•References: 12

    The current study examines the effect of racial regard—feelings of positivity or negativity toward African Americans—on stereotype threat. Forty participants at Harvard University responded to questions concerning their social attitudes and returned later to take a difficult verbal test. This study replicated the well-established stereotype threat effect, and found evidence that both public regard (judgments concerning how others view Blacks) and…

  • The Space between Us and Them: Perceptions of Status Differences

    Open Access•Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Kimberly Kahn et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2009•Cited by: 17•References: 7

    The current study examines perceived status differences among ethnic groups. Consistent with a group dominance perspective, three samples of American university students revealed that perceived ethnic status differences increased to the extent that individuals had low ethnic status, perceived their society to be unfair, and were lower on social dominance orientation. In addition, social dominance orientation moderated the relationship between per…

  • Political Orientation and Ideological Inconsistencies: (Dis)comfort with Value Tradeoffs

    Open Access•Clayton R Critcher, Michaela Huber et al.•ARTICLE•Social Justice Research•2009•Cited by: 1•References: 23

  • Hierarchy in the mind: The predictive power of social dominance orientation across social contexts and domains

    Open Access•Nour S Kteily, Nour Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2011•Cited by: 30•References: 27

  • Evidence for hypodescent and racial hierarchy in the categorization and perception of biracial individuals

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2011•Cited by: 49

    Individuals who qualify equally for membership in two racial groups provide a rare window into social categorization and perception. In 5 experiments, we tested the extent to which a rule of hypodescent, whereby biracial individuals are assigned the status of their socially subordinate parent group, would govern perceptions of Asian-White and Black-White targets. In Experiment 1, in spite of posing explicit questions concerning Asian-White and Bl…

  • Social Dominance Orientation: Revisiting the Structure and Function of a Variable Predicting Social and Political Attitudes

    Open Access•Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2012

    Social dominance orientation (SDO) is one of the most powerful predictors of intergroup attitudes and behavior. Although SDO works well as a unitary construct, some analyses suggest it might consist of two complementary dimensions--SDO-Dominance (SDO-D), or the preference for some groups to dominate others, and SDO-Egalitarianism (SDO-E), a preference for nonegalitarian intergroup relations. Using seven samples from the United States and Israel, …

  • You're Inferior and Not Worth Our Concern: The Interface Between Empathy and Social Dominance Orientation

    Open Access•Jim Sidanius, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality•2013

    OBJECTIVE: This project was directed at examination of the potential reciprocal relationship between empathy and social dominance orientation (SDO), with the purpose of testing the predictions from Duckitt's highly influential dual process model of prejudice, and further examining the validity of the mere effect view of social dominance orientation. METHOD: To examine this relationship, the authors employed cross-lagged structural equation modeli…

  • Status boundary enforcement and the categorization of black–white biracials

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2013•Cited by: 22•References: 20

  • The nature of social dominance orientation: Theorizing and measuring preferences for intergroup inequality using the new SDO7 scale

    Arnold K Ho, Jim Sidanius et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2015•Cited by: 250•References: 22

    A new conceptualization and measurement of social dominance orientation-individual differences in the preference for group based hierarchy and inequality-is introduced. In contrast to previous measures of social dominance orientation that were designed to be unidimensional, the new measure (SDO7) embeds theoretically grounded subdimensions of SDO-SDO-Dominance (SDO-D) and SDO-Egalitarianism (SDO-E). SDO-D constitutes a preference for systems of g…

  • Does this Smile Make me Look White? Exploring the Effects of Emotional Expressions on the Categorization of Multiracial Children

    Steven O Robert, Kerrie C Leonard et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cognition and Culture•2017•References: 14

    Previous research shows that Multiracial adults are categorized as more Black than White (i.e., Black-categorization bias), especially when they have angry facial expressions. The present research examined the extent to which these categorization patterns extended to Multiracial children, with both White and Black participants. Consistent with past research, both White and Black participants categorized Multiracial children as more Black than Whi…

  • Predisposed to prejudice but responsive to intergroup contact? Testing the unique benefits of intergroup contact across different types of individual differences

    Open Access•Nour S Kteily, Gordon Hodson et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2017•Cited by: 13•References: 12

    Recent research demonstrates that intergroup contact effectively reduces prejudice even among prejudice-prone persons. But some assert that evidence regarding the benefits of contact among prejudice-prone individuals is “mixed,” particularly for those higher in social dominance orientation (SDO), one of the field’s most important individual differences. Problematically, person variables are typically considered in isolation despite being intercor…

  • Hierarchy in the eye of the beholder: (Anti-)egalitarianism shapes perceived levels of social inequality

    Nour S Kteily, Jennifer Sheehy‐skeffington et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 17

    Debate surrounding the issue of inequality and hierarchy between social groups has become increasingly prominent in recent years. At the same time, individuals disagree about the extent to which inequality between advantaged and disadvantaged groups exists. Whereas prior work has examined the ways in which individuals legitimize (or delegitimize) inequality as a function of their motivations, we consider whether individuals' orientation toward gr…

  • You’re one of us: Black Americans’ use of hypodescent and its association with egalitarianism

    Arnold K Ho, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2017•Cited by: 16

    Research on multiracial categorization has focused on majority group social perceivers (i.e., White Americans), demonstrating that they (a) typically categorize Black-White multiracials according to a rule of hypodescent, associating them more with their lower status parent group than their higher status parent group, and (b) do so at least in part to preserve the hierarchical status quo. The current work examines whether members of an ethnic min…

  • Which group to credit (and blame)? Whites make attributions about White-minority biracials’ successes and failures based on their own (anti-)egalitarianism and ethnic identification

    Open Access•Kaylene J McClanahan, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2018•Cited by: 3•References: 5

    Individuals’ perceptions of biracials can vary based on the motives of the perceiver. Here, we examine how two factors—perceivers’ group-level identification motives and their system-level beliefs about the desirability of hierarchy (i.e., social dominance orientation)—predict the degree to which they attribute a biracial target’s successes or failures to that target’s White versus minority background. Across three studies examining different con…

  • Whose Side Are You On? Asian Americans’ Mistrust of Asian–White Biracials Predicts More Exclusion From the Ingroup

    Open Access•Jacqueline M Chen, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 5

    We investigated Asian Americans' perceptions of Asian-White biracials. Because the Asian/White boundary may be more permeable than other minority/White boundaries, we reasoned that Asian Americans are more likely than Black Americans to be skeptical of biracials, perceiving that biracials would prefer to identify as White and would be disloyal to Asians, consequently categorizing them as more outgroup. We further reasoned that Asian Americans' co…

  • The Roles of Group Status and Group Membership in the Practice of Hypodescent

    Open Access•Steven O Robert, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2020

    Hypodescent emerged in U.S. history to reinforce racial hierarchy. Research suggests that among contemporary U.S. adults, hypodescent continues to shape social perception. Among U.S. children, however, hypodescent is less likely to be endorsed. Here, we tested for hypodescent by introducing U.S. children (ages 4–9) and adults (N = 273) to hierarchically ordered novel groups (one was high status and another was low status) and then to a child who …

  • Should Individuals Think Like Their Group? A Descriptive-to-Prescriptive Tendency Toward Group-Based Beliefs

    Open Access•Steven O Robert, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Child Development•2021

    Across three pre-registered studies with children (ages 4–9) and adults (N = 303), we examined whether how a group is predicted evaluations of how group members should be (i.e., a descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency), under conditions in which the descriptive group norms entailed beliefs that were fact-based (Study 1), opinion-based (Study 2), and ideology-based (Study 3). Overall, participants tended to disapprove of individuals with beliefs th…

  • Beyond Black and White: Conceptualizing and essentializing Black–White identity

    Steven O Robert, Arnold K Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Cultural Diversity & Ethnic…•2021•Cited by: 3

    Our data shed new light on the complexity of race concepts and essentialism and advance the psychological understanding of Black-White identity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Monoracial perceivers’ sociopolitical motives and their inclusion versus exclusion of multiracial people

    Arnold K Ho, Nour S Kteily•ARTICLE•European Review of Social…•2022

    Many societies today are organised as race-based social hierarchies, with clear boundaries between racial groups at the top versus bottom. The growth of multiracial populations has been heralded as holding the potential to blur existing group boundaries. But whether multiracial people do blur boundaries depends critically on how monoracial perceivers categorise them. We review our research programme on how monoracial perceivers’ categorisation of…

  • United we stand? Perceived loyalty of dual nationals, multiracial people, and dual state residents

    Open Access•Rachel D Fine, Nour S Kteily et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 13

    As multiracial children of foreign-born parents, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama embody diversity in politics for many perceivers. Yet some have also questioned their loyalty to their respective groups. We explored perceptions of dual group members’ (DGM; dual nationals, multiracial people, and dual state residents) loyalty among first-party (those who share a group membership with a DGM target) and third-party perceivers (those who do not). Studi…

  • Changing beliefs about gender: The relation between contact with gender nonconforming individuals and gender essentialism

    Rachel D Fine, A Gelman et al.•ARTICLE•Psychology and Sexuality•2023•Cited by: 4•References: 19

    Increasing numbers of individuals are openly identifying outside of the gender binary, which may have broader effects on how people view gender. Little research has examined how contact with gender nonconforming (GNC) individuals may influence others’ conceptualisations of gender. Through seven studies with 2,547 participants, we found that contact with GNC individuals corresponded to reduced gender essentialism. In two correlational studies, we …

  • Using the sociopolitical motive × intergroup threat model of intergroup relations to understand opposition to policies that promote social equality

    Open Access•Arnold K Ho, Nour S Kteily•ARTICLE•Social Issues and Policy Review•2024•References: 30

    In the last several decades, social psychologists have identified several social and political motives that undergird conflict between groups (e.g., racial group conflict), and the conditions under which individuals holding these motives are most likely to oppose policies that promote greater equality between groups. In the current article, we introduce a framework that integrates these insights—the sociopolitical motive × intergroup threat model…

  • Beliefs about what disadvantaged groups would do with power shape advantaged groups’ (un)willingness to relinquish it

    Frank Kachanoff, Jennifer Sheehy‐skeffington et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2025

    Dominant groups often resist possible changes to the hierarchical status quo. Might such tendencies be partly rooted in negative-yet potentially malleable-meta-beliefs about how disempowered groups would use power if they gained control? We investigate these questions across three studies and eight independent samples (Total N = 7,460 analyzed responses) in the context of Black-White relations in the United States. Specifically, we examine White …

  • The Role of Egalitarian Ideology in System-Challenging Collective Action Among Members of Dominant and Marginalized Racial Groups

    Open Access•Nadia Vossoughi, Wilson N Merrell et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2026

    Past research on collective action focuses on how identification with a marginalized group or with a politicized identity motivates collective action. We propose that egalitarian ideology —a preference for group-based equality and opposition to hierarchy—can help explain why both marginalized and dominant group members can be motivated to engage in system-challenging collective action. In Studies 1A–1C, among Black, Asian, and White Americans, eg…

  • Looking White But Feeling Asian: The Role of Perceived Membership Permeability and Perceived Discrimination in Multiracial-Monoracial Alliances

    Open Access•Wilson N Merrell, Nadia Vossoughi et al.•ARTICLE•Personality and Social Psychology…•2026

    Relatively little is known about the extent to which multiracial people stand in solidarity with their parent groups. Here, we draw from social identity theory to examine predictors of Asian-White multiracial people’s solidarity with Asian and White people, Asian monoracial people’s meta-perceptions of these solidarity levels, and consequences of these meta-perceptions for intergroup relations. Studies 1a–b show that Asian-White multiracial peopl…

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