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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 184-189Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.08.017
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Racial bias; Context; Threat perception
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH045049, F31MH069017] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIMH NIH HHS [F31 MH069017, R01 MH045049, R01 MH045049-14, F31 MH069017-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Research shows that participants shoot armed Blacks more frequently and quickly than armed Whites, but make don't-shoot responses more frequently and quickly for unarmed Whites than unarmed Blacks. We argue that this bias reflects the perception of threat - specifically, threat associated with Black males. Other danger cues (not just race) may create a similar predisposition to shoot, and if these cues promote shooting when the target is White, they should attenuate racial bias. We embedded targets in threatening and safe backgrounds. Racial bias was evident in safe contexts but disappeared when context signaled danger, and this reduction was largely due to an increased tendency to shoot White targets. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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