Flattering or fetishizing? Racial minority group members respond negatively to racial dating preferences favoring their racial ingroup.

Michael Thai et al.

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology2026https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000782article
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Abstract

This research shows that sexual preferences favoring racial minority group members are taken by racial minority group members as indicative of racial fetishization and have negative implications for how the person espousing them is perceived. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

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@article{michael2026,
  title        = {{Flattering or fetishizing? Racial minority group members respond negatively to racial dating preferences favoring their racial ingroup.}},
  author       = {Michael Thai et al.},
  journal      = {Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000782},
}

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M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
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