Gov’t Instability Prompts Support for Lighter-Skinned Candidates Among Both Blacks and Whites

Saturday, January 9, 2016 - 17:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Government instability prompts both Black and White Americans to show a preference for lighter-skinned over darker-skinned political candidates, researchers at New York University, the University of Chicago, and Rutgers University have found. In addition, their findings, which appear in the latest issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, show that Whites express a […]

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