This article highlights what happens when people identify with 2 or more conflicting Salient Social Identities. For example, women may be stereotyped to think that they are bad at mathematics. Asians on the other hand are often perceived to be good at math. So where does this leave Asian-American women? How do they think other people see them.
The survey studied Asian-American women, African-American women and men. This survey's purpose was to see how the individuals in this group viewed themselves and how they thought other people viewed them.
Out of the 62 Asian-Americans surveyed, "They found that when the women identified their gender, they evaluated their own verbal ability more favorably and thought that others would do the same. But when they identified their Asian-American ethnicity, they evaluated their math ability more favorably and thought that others would do the same".
When African-Americans were asked the same thing " They did not think that people close to them viewed their intellectual ability as lower when their ethnicity was more salient than their gender, nor did they view their own intellectual ability as lower". Sinclair believes that the reason for this is because African-Americans have had to deal with an alarming amount of prejudice over the years and so they as a community have built a bond where they do not let outsiders influence how they would like to be perceived in society.