Sarah Elizabeth Gaither

Journal article Social Cognition · April 1, 2016 Featured Publication Categorizing racially ambiguous individuals is multifaceted, and the current work proposes social-motivational factors also exert considerable influence on how racial ambiguity is perceived, directing the resolution of ambiguity in a manner that is functio ... Full text Cite

Thinking Outside the Box: Multiple Identity Mind-Sets Affect Creative Problem Solving

Journal article Social Psychological and Personality Science · July 5, 2015 Featured Publication Rigid thinking is associated with less creativity, suggesting that priming a flexible mind-set should boost creative thought. In three studies, we investigate whether priming multiple social identities predicts more creativity in domains unrelated to socia ... Full text Cite

Monoracial and biracial children: effects of racial identity saliency on social learning and social preferences.

Journal article Child development · November 2014 Featured Publication Children prefer learning from, and affiliating with, their racial in-group but those preferences may vary for biracial children. Monoracial (White, Black, Asian) and biracial (Black/White, Asian/White) children (N = 246, 3-8 years) had their racial identit ... Full text Cite

Essentialist thinking predicts decrements in children's memory for racially ambiguous faces.

Journal article Developmental psychology · February 2014 Featured Publication Past research shows that adults often display poor memory for racially ambiguous and racial outgroup faces, with both face types remembered worse than own-race faces. In the present study, the authors examined whether children also show this pattern of res ... Full text Cite

When the half affects the whole: Priming identity for biracial individuals in social interactions

Journal article Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · May 1, 2013 Featured Publication In two studies we investigate how the fluid identities of biracial individuals interact with contextual factors to shape behavior in interracial settings. In Study 1, biracial Black/White participants (n = 22) were primed with either their Black or White i ... Full text Cite

Living with an other-race roommate shapes Whites' behavior in subsequent diverse settings

Journal article Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · March 1, 2013 Featured Publication In a multi-phase research design over two academic semesters, White college students assigned to either a same-race or other-race roommate were tracked across two survey phases and a third phase involving an interracial interaction with a Black stranger. A ... Full text Cite