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Area of Science:

  • Social Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Survey Methodology

Background:

  • Individuals adapt their identities based on social context.
  • Subconscious mirroring of others is a documented social phenomenon.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate situational identity shifts among survey interviewers.
  • To determine if interviewers' racial identification aligns with respondents' race.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of repeated measures of racial identification from 2004-2018 General Social Survey data.
  • Examination of interviewer self-identification changes over time.
  • Statistical analysis to control for measurement error.

Main Results:

  • Interviewer racial identification varied significantly over time.
  • Changes in interviewer identification were not fully explained by measurement error.
  • Interviewers were more likely to report racial identities that matched respondents' race.

Conclusions:

  • Subconscious affiliative identification influences interviewer behavior.
  • Findings have implications for race-of-interviewer effects and the social construction of homophily.
  • Re-evaluation of causality in studies of race and inequality is suggested.