“…in fact, historically, one common categorization heuristic was the one-drop rule whereby one drop of "Black blood" identified a mixed-race individual as Black, which White slave owners used to consign thousands of multiracial individuals to slavery (davis, 1991). however, in the present day, a number of higher-order social cognitive factors are known to influence racial categorization, especially as faces become more racially ambiguous (e.g., freeman & ambady, 2011;pauker, rule, & ambady, 2010;Slepian, Weisbuch, pauker, Bastian, & ambady, 2014). for example, those who identify strongly with their ethnic/racial ingroup tend to categorize more racially ambiguous faces as outgroup members (castano, yzerbyt, Bourguignon, & Seron, 2002;e.…”