U Study Examines Social Construction of Race in U.S., Brazil
A three-phase study, led by Jacqueline M. Chen, assistant professor of Psychology,
and published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, compared how Brazilians
and Americans assessed the race of another person. Brazilians were more likely to
decide what race a person was based on his or her appearance, while Americans relied
most heavily on parentage to make that determination. Click to learn more.
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