Skin color and the perception of attractiveness among African Americans: Does gender make a difference?

By Mark E. Hill. 2002

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

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From Dark to Light: Skin Color and Wages Among African-Americans (2007, neutral): “Similarly, Hill (2002) found that the inclusion of socioeconomic and socioeconomic background characteristics yielded skin shade and I.Q. correlations that were statistically insignificant.”
Color 3D bodies and judgements of human female attractiveness (2007, background): “Although many cross-cultural studies have suggested that paler skin is generally regarded as more attractive by human populations (Aoki, 2002; Barber, 1995; Bond & Cash, 1992; Hill, 2002; Sahay & Piran, 1997), several studies have suggested that, for Caucasian faces in the Europe and America, modera”
The independent effects of skin tone and facial features on Whites' affective reactions to Blacks (2012, background): “Gender differences have been reported in skin tone research (Coard, Breland, & Raskin, 2001; Hill, 2002; Ross, 1997; Thompson & Keith, 2001; Wade & Bielitz, 2005; Wade et al., 2004), thus the effects of facial features also”
A Decade of System Justification Theory: Accumulated Evidence of Conscious and Unconscious Bolstering of the Status Quo (2004, background): “On the basis of these and other findings, Smith and Mackie (2002) concluded that intergroup attitudes are more complex and differentiated than the received view allows.”
Teaching and Learning Color Consciousness in Black Families: Exploring Family Processes and Women’s Experiences With Colorism (2011, background): “Skin tone, along with other correlated characteristics such as hair texture and facial features, has “more bearing” in the lives of women (M. Hill, 2002, p. 78) than men.”
The Face of Crime: Viewers' Memory of Race‐Related Facial Features of Individuals Pictured in the News (2004, result): “These results are consistent with Maddox and Gray’s (2002) research that reported that darker skin tones were associated with greater perceived criminality and aggressiveness for judgments of male targets and with greater poverty and laziness among judgments of female targets (Hill, 2002).”
Colorism in the Classroom: How Skin Tone Stratifies African American and Latina/o Students (2016, background): “Racialized beauty norms enhance the importance of physical appearance for girls, making light skin color even more important to their social status (Glenn, 2008; Hill, 2002; Hunter, 2005).”
THE CONTRIBUTION OF FACE FAMILIARITY TO INGROUP FAVORITISM AND STEREOTYPING (2007, background): “…to indicate that negative affective associations to dark skin color are shared by people of varied ethnic and racial backgrounds (cf. Gergenl967; Hill, 2002; Maddox, 2004; Maddox & Gray, 2002; Uhlmann, Dasgupta, Elgueta, Greenwald, & Swanson, 2002; van den Berghe & Frost, 1986), and there are…”
The Relationship Between Skin Tone and School Suspension for African Americans (2013, background): “Hill (2002) concluded that African American interviewers classified white respondents’ skin tones as significantly lighter than white interviewers did, and that white interviewers classified African American respondents’ skin tones significantly darker than African Ameri-”