Seeing Black: Race, Crime, and Visual Processing.

Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt · Phillip Atiba Goff · Valerie J. Purdie · Paul G. Davies

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Social and Intergroup Psychology Face Recognition and Perception Deception detection and forensic psychology

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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.

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