Intercultural Dating at Predominantly White Universities in the United States: The Maintenance and Crossing of Group Borders

Keels, Micere; Harris, Keshia

doi:10.3390/soc4030363

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“…The only exception in the pattern found in this study pertained to responses to LA targets, such that desire for social interaction with LA targets varied as a function of their attractiveness. These results from the Caucasian sample suggesting that positive responses to attractive opposite-sex persons as well as negative reactions toward attractive same-sex persons emerged more strongly for European Caucasians and LAs than for targets from other ethnic backgrounds fit with findings indicating that Caucasians seem to prefer Whites and LAs as potential partners (Feliciano et al, 2009), that mate poachingwhich might enhance the sensitivity to rivalry-is more frequent in Europe and LA than in other (i.e., AS or African) cultures (Schmitt et al, 2004), and that LA students are more likely than other ethnic groups to date interculturally (Keels & Harris, 2014). Moreover, regarding partner preferences, the ''Latino-White boundary'' seems to be less rigid than other ethnic barriers: Latino Americans tend to prefer other Latinos or Caucasians as mates (Feliciano, Lee, & Robnett, 2011).…”

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On the Borders of Harmful and Helpful Beauty Biases

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Research with European Caucasian samples demonstrates that attractiveness-based biases in social evaluation depend on the constellation of the sex of the evaluator and the sex of the target: Whereas people generally show positive biases toward attractive opposite-sex persons, they show less positive or even negative biases toward attractive same-sex persons. By examining these biases both within and between different ethnicities, the current studies provide new evidence for both the generalizability and the specificity of these attractiveness-based social perception biases. Examining within-ethnicity effects, Study 1 is the first to demonstrate that samples from diverse ethnic backgrounds parallel the finding of European Caucasian samples: The advantageous or adverse effects of attractiveness depend on the gender constellation of the evaluator and the evaluated person. Examining between-ethnicity effects, Study 2 found that these attractiveness-based biases emerge almost exclusively toward targets of the evaluator's own ethnic background; these biases were reduced or eliminated for cross-ethnicity evaluations and interaction intentions. We discuss these findings in light of evolutionary principles and reflect on potential interactions between culture and evolved cognitive mechanisms.

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“…While social scientists have examined patterns of marriage and cohabitation in young adulthood, they have paid less attention to “dating” (i.e., romantic involvement outside of a co-residential relationship) in this period (for exceptions see Blackwell and Lichter 2004; Sassler and Joyner 2012; Keels and Harris 2014; McClintock 2010). Studies that focus on population-based samples are a case in point.…”

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Relationship Involvement Among Young Adults: Are Asian American Men an Exceptional Case?

Balistreri

Joyner

Kao

2015

Popul Res Policy Rev

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Asian American men and women have been largely neglected in previous studies of romantic relationship formation and status. Using data from the first and fourth waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we examine romantic and sexual involvement among young adults, most of who were between the ages of 25 to 32 (N=11,555). Drawing from explanations that focus on structural and cultural elements as well as racial hierarchies, we examine the factors that promote and impede involvement in romantic/sexual relationships. We use logistic regression to model current involvement of men and women separately and find, with the exception of Filipino men, Asian men are significantly less likely than white men to be currently involved with a romantic partner, even after controlling for a wide array of characteristics. Our results suggest that the racial hierarchy framework best explains lower likelihood of involvement among Asian American men.

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“…It was shown in previous studies that ethnic diversity of friendships influences interethnic dating (Clark-Ibáñez & Felmlee 2004, Keels & Harris 2014, and I argued that a possible source of this effect can be the change of preferences. Results supported the hypothesis that having Roma friends increased the probability that non-Roma respondents find their Roma classmates attractive, and also that they would date with Roma classmates.…”

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“…Are they additional, or one dominates the other when both effect is entered in the model? Examples from previous research can be found for no effect of group heterogeneity (on the school level) beyond an existing effect of friendship diversity (ClarkIbáñez & Felmlee 2004), and for additional effect of group (college) heterogeneity and friendship diversity (Keels & Harris 2014). As classes are relatively small in contrast to the groups analyzed by these studies, an additional effect beyond friendship diversity may be assumed (H.3.…”

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“…On the other hand, ethnic diversity of respondents' neighborhood and high school did not have such independent effect. Keels & Harris (2014) have also shown that more heterogeneous friendship networks increases the likelihood of inter-ethnic dating study using survey data from 24 predominantly white colleges. Moreover, in contrast to the above results, lower share of the same ethnicity students in the college had an additional positive effect of interethnic dating in their study.…”

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Interethnic dating preferences of Roma and non-Roma secondary school students

Lőrincz

2016

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Adolescent romantic relationships are sources of social influence concerning educational achievement and delinquent behavior. Integrated schooling is known to induce inter-ethnic friendship relations, however, it also creates the opportunity of inter-ethnic dating. Based on contact theory, inter-ethnic personal relationships or long-term exposure decreases ethnic prejudice, thus it is proposed that willingness to date between ethnic groups may also increase. The question arises, whether in the school context exposure is enough for this mechanism to emerge, or personal contact is necessary. It must be also taken into account, that romantic relationships are embedded in status relations within schools. Previous studies on intermarriage and homogamy found a "social exchange" mechanism, that lower status members of majority groups are more likely to choose minority partners. Translated to the adolescent society, it is assumed, that the less popular members of the majority groups are those, who are more willing to form inter-ethnic dating relations. To address the above questions empirically, the first wave of the Hungarian network panel "Wired into EachOther" was analyzed, containing data of 1214 9th grade students in 43 classes of seven secondary schools. Inter-ethnic dating preferences of Roma and non-Roma students were measured by dyadic attribution of physical attractiveness, and nominations of willingness to date. Statistical analysis was carried out using multilevel p2 models. They suggest that mixed groups are not sufficient, but personal contacts are necessary to decrease same ethnicity preferences in dating. An additional tendency is that among majority students, those who are isolated from the friendship networks are the ones who are more willing to date with the minority group.

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Intercultural Dating at Predominantly White Universities in the United States: The Maintenance and Crossing of Group Borders

Cited by 15 publications

References 49 publications

On the Borders of Harmful and Helpful Beauty Biases

On the Borders of Harmful and Helpful Beauty Biases

Relationship Involvement Among Young Adults: Are Asian American Men an Exceptional Case?

Interethnic dating preferences of Roma and non-Roma secondary school students

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