Peer reviewed journals about interracial dating

Methods The current experiment aimed to establish the relative attractiveness of individuals of three broad racial groups. The size of this cost will be a factor of the attractiveness of the potential partner such that the cost is lower if the potential partner is more attractive as there will be fewer more attractive partners that the person will be missing out on. For instance, in the case of interracial relationships, recent research has shown that political orientation is a strong predictor of desire to date someone from another race [5]. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 27, What individual characteristics and motives predict cross-race friendships among children? Social distance is the degree to which one allows particular social groups to become part of their close social network.

References [ 1 ] Alexander, M. If the person looked White then the burden of proof was on the State to show the person was either Black or of the mixed race. Penalties were also set up for any probate judge who knowingly issued a marriage license to an interracial couple, and for any justice of the peace or minister of the gospel who performed a marriage ceremony for such a couple.