New research is providing insight into how people associate race with gender.

According to the study it has pointed out that this stereotypical association is weaker in Black women and Asian men. To determine whether a person’s ingroup identity and group status play a factor in such associations, the research team conducted two separate studies. Their research examines whether intersecting racial and gender identities affect people’s perception. Keeping in mind that the participants associated Black people and East Asian people with either masculinity or femininity.

What does this mean: It means these studies demonstrate that the gender content of racial stereotypes has important real-world consequences in shaping of our culture and biases: If there is one thing you need to know about biases, it is that WE all have them.

So, these studies show two things: cultural/personal identity. Meaning Culture, in this context, refers to the beliefs, norms, behaviors, and values that a given group of people deem acceptable. Whereas identity is about knowing what is acceptable and true for yourself.  We form a cultural identity when we subconsciously interpret and incorporate signals and biases from the world around us into our own identity so we can belong. 

In psychology, it is an established belief that people make associations based on components of a person’s social identity, which includes age, race and gender. 

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