1. Seeing black: race, crime, and visual processing.
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Eberhardt JL, Goff PA, Purdie VJ, and Davies PG
- Subjects
- Attention, Ethnicity, Humans, Judgment, Stereotyping, Black or African American, Crime, Social Perception, Visual Perception
- Abstract
Using police officers and undergraduates as participants, the authors investigated the influence of stereotypic associations on visual processing in 5 studies. Study 1 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., (((c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).)
- Published
- 2004
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