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Ed Hagen
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Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Evolutionary medicine with a focus on drug use and mental health. Evolutionary psychology. Faculty page: anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
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Why is "race" so important? The "Santa Barbara" school of evolutionary psychology proposes 2 complementary reasons: 1. Race is a cue of coalition membership, & coalitions trump race 2. Race is a cue of the local ecology, & local ecology trumps race👇 🧪 #BioAnthwww.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Can race be replaced? Ecology and race categorization. Why do people categorize others by race? Building on recent work integrating affordance management with a life history perspective, we propose that one reason perceivers categorize others by race is because race is a cue to the environments/ecologies in which groups live. In the U.S., because Black and White individuals differentially live in environments that vary in ecological harshness/unpredictability, race may be used as a cue of a person's home ecology. In three experiments (undergraduate and online U.S. samples; N = 1260) with the memory confusion paradigm (“who-said-what”), when American perceivers are presented with information on both a person's race (i.e., Black/White) and the ecologies in which they live (i.e., harsh/hopeful), racial categorization decreases, and ecology categorization emerges (Studies 1–3). Hence, in the minds of perceivers, the ecologies that others come from “replaces” others' race...
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Ed Hagen
@edhagen.net
Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Evolutionary medicine with a focus on drug use and mental health. Evolutionary psychology. Faculty page: anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
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