Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization

By Robert Kurzban, J. Tooby, L. Cosmides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Modularity in cognition: framing the debate. (2006, background): “Kurzban et al. (2001) suggested that because race was evolutionarily novel, it was unlikely that there would be evolved specialized machinery to categorize people along this dimension (see also Cosmides, Tooby, & Kurzban, 2003).”
Manipulating subcategory salience: exploring the link between skin tone and social perception of Blacks (2004, background): “However, some evidence suggests that the accessibility of race can be decreased through experimental manipulations in this paradigm ( Kurzban, Tooby, & Cosmides, 2001; Stangor et al., 1992).”
Resolving the debate on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions (2005, background): “…for the construction of representations of persons, predators (Barrett et al., under review), minds (Baron-Cohen, 1995; Leslie, 1987), coalitions (Kurzban et al., 2001; Price et al., 2002), social interactions (Cosmides & Tooby, 1989, 1992, 2005), kinship (Lieberman et al., 2003, in press, under…”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “…for the construction of representations of persons, predators (Barrett et al., under review), minds (Baron-Cohen, 1995; Leslie, 1987), coalitions (Kurzban et al., 2001; Price et al., 2002), social interactions (Cosmides & Tooby, 1989, 1992, 2005), kinship (Lieberman et al., 2003, in press, under…”
The Effect of Social Category on Third Party Punishment (2007, background): “Humans possess cognitive adaptations to categorize individuals in the social world according to coalition or group membership (Kurzban, Tooby, and Cosmides, 2001) and such categorization has been found to occur with minimal prompting (Rabbie and Horwitz, 1969; Tajfel, Billig, Bundy, and Flament,…”
On the epistemic costs of implicit bias (2011, background): “…classification that cuts across racial lines results in a facial recognition deficit that tracks the constructed in-group/out-group boundary, rather than the long-learned racial categories (Kurzban et al. 2001; cf. Ackerman et al. 2006; Cosmides et al. 2003; cf. Gaertner and Dovidio 2000).”
The Nature of Race (2015, background): “This could be represented as a serendipitous “misfiring” of kin-favorit ism (Tooby and Cosmides, 1989; Kurzban et al. 2001) or as the result of group selection (Salter and Harpending, 2013).”
Liberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations. (2009, background): “Virtues of loyalty, patriotism, and self-sacrifice for the group, combined with an extreme vigilance for traitors, matched recent work on the evolution of “coalitional psychology” ( Kurzban, Tooby, & Cosmides, 2001 ).”
Diversity in the person, diversity in the group: Challenges of identity complexity for social perception and social interaction (2009, background): “, people tend to form coalitions with racial ingroupmembers), but in the studies conducted by Kurzban et al., race and coalition status were experimentally unconfounded. Using the ‘‘who-said-what?’’ paradigm (Taylor, Fiske, Etcoff, & Ruderman, 1978) that has frequently been employed to examine spont”
Putting yourself in the skin of a black avatar reduces implicit racial bias. (2013, background): “In Kurzban, Tooby, and Cosmides (2001) and Van Bavel and Cunningham (2009) it was shown that the formation of new in-group and out-groups based simply on pictures could lessen racial bias towards black members of the group.”