1. Seeing Black: Race, Crime, and Visual processing.
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Eberhardt, Jennifer L., Goff, Phillip Atiba, Purdie, Valerie J., and Davies, Paul G.
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POLICE , *COLLEGE students , *CRIME , *AFRICAN Americans , *SOCIAL groups , *SOCIAL participation - Abstract
Using police officers and undergraduates as participants the authors investigated the influence of stereotypic associations on visual processing in 5 studies. Study i demonstrates that Black faces influence participants' ability to spontaneously detect degraded images of crime-relevant objects. Conversely, Studies 2-4 demonstrate that activating abstract concepts (i.e., crime and basketball) induces attentional biases toward Black male faces. Moreover, these processing biases may be related to the degree to which a social group member is physically representative of the social group (Studies 4-5). These studies, taken together- suggest that some associations between social groups and concepts are bidirectional and operate as visual tuning devices-producing shifts in perception and attention of a sort likely to influence decision making and behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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