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Colorblind Measures and Inductions

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Empirical investigations of racial colorblindness require corresponding measures and inductions. A wide variety of measurement and inductive strategies are available in the literature; however, corresponding with theoretical treatments of colorblindness, remarkably little consensus exists. Instead, researchers have generally opted to create operationalizations of colorblindness from scratch depending upon specific research aims. In Chapter 4, both measures and inductions of racial colorblindness are reviewed. When possible, the newly proposed four-variety model of colorblindness is used for the purposes of categorization.

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Mazzocco, P.J. (2017). Colorblind Measures and Inductions. In: The Psychology of Racial Colorblindness. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59302-3_4

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