How Healthy Is She? Perceptions of the Physical Healthiness of Black Women by Skin Tone and Perceiver Race

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作者：
Volpe, Vanessa V. [1 ]
Holland, Melissa C. [1 ]
Badejoh, Oreoluwa O. [1 ,3 ]
Hoggard, Lori S. [1 ]
Skinner, Olivenne D. [2 ]
Holochwost, Steven J. [4 ]
Hatton, Vanessa L. [5 ]
机构：
[1] North Carolina State Univ, Dept Psychol, Campus Box 7650, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA
[2] Wayne State Univ, Dept Psychol, Detroit, MI USA
[3] Wayne State Univ, Merrill Palmer Skillman Inst, Detroit, MI USA
[4] CUNY, LEHMAN COLL, New York, NY USA
[5] Rutgers Univ New Brunswick, Dept Psychol, New Brunswick, NJ USA
来源：
STIGMA AND HEALTH | 2025年
关键词：
Black; women; skin tone; health; perceptions; GENDERED RACIAL MICROAGGRESSIONS; FACIAL FEATURES; BIAS; COLOR; STEREOTYPES; PAIN; AMERICANS; CARE; ATTRACTIVENESS; DISCRIMINATION;
D O I：
10.1037/sah0000613
中图分类号：
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号：
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要：
Perceptions of the healthiness of Black women shape the way that they are treated and may differ by characteristics of the person and the perceiver. We examined perceptions of Black women's physical healthiness by skin tone and rater race. In a within-subjects design, adults (N = 280; 45.7% Black, 54.3% White) rated the physical healthiness of the person in photos of Black women. We found a significant interaction between target skin tone and rater race, F(1.88, 519.05) = 3.27, p = .038. In line with a skin tone bias, both White and Black raters evaluated lighter skin toned targets as most physically healthy. However, White raters evaluated dark skin toned targets as significantly more healthy than medium skin toned targets, whereas Black raters viewed these two groups similarly. Inaccurate perceptions of Black women by skin tone may have implications for the stigmatization and mistreatment of Black women in both medical and nonmedical settings.
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