Researchers have used social dominance, system justification, authoritarianism, and social identity theories to understand how monoracial perceivers' sociopolitical motives influence their categorization of multiracial people. The result has been a growing understanding of how particular sociopolitical motives and contexts affect categorization, without a unifying perspective to integrate these insights. We review evidence supporting each theory's predictions concerning how monoracial perceivers categorize multiracial people who combine their ingroup with an outgroup, with attention to the moderating role of perceiver group status. We find most studies cannot arbitrate between theories of categorization and reveal additional gaps in the literature. To advance this research area, we introduce the sociopolitical motive × intergroup threat model of racial categorization that (a) clarifies which sociopolitical motives interact with which intergroup threats to predict categorization and (b) highlights the role of perceiver group status. Furthermore, we consider how our model can help understand phenomena beyond multiracial categorization.

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引入社会政治动机×群体间威胁模型以了解单种族感知者的社会政治动机如何影响其对多种族人群的分类。

研究人员已经使用社会支配地位，系统合理性，威权主义和社会认同理论来理解单种族感知者的社会政治动机如何影响他们对多种族人群的分类。结果是，人们在没有统一的观点来整合这些见解的情况下，对特定的社会政治动机和情境如何影响分类有了越来越多的了解。我们回顾了支持每种理论的预测的证据，这些预测涉及关于单种族感知者如何将结合其群体与外部群体的多种族人群进行分类，并注意感知者群体地位的调节作用。我们发现大多数研究都无法在分类理论之间进行仲裁，而无法揭示文献中的其他空白。为了推进这一研究领域，我们介绍了种族分类的社会政治动机×群体间威胁模型，该模型（a）阐明哪些社会政治动机与哪些群体间威胁相互作用，以预测分类，并且（b）强调感知者群体地位的作用。此外，我们考虑了我们的模型如何帮助理解多种族分类之外的现象。