Category Salience and Racial Bias in Weapon Identification: A Diffusion Modeling Approach

Stereotypes linking Black Americans with guns can have life-altering outcomes, making it important to identify factors that shape such weapon identification biases and how they do so. We report 6 experiments that provide a mechanistic account of how category salience affects weapon identification bi...

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Published in:	Journal of personality and social psychology Vol. 120; no. 3; pp. 672 - 693
Main Authors:	Todd, Andrew R., Johnson, David J., Lassetter, Bethany, Neel, Rebecca, Simpson, Austin J., Cesario, Joseph
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Psychological Association 01-03-2021
Subjects:	Adolescent African Americans African Americans - psychology Age Age Factors Applied behavior analysis Bias Black People Classification Decision Support Techniques Diffusion Diffusion models European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology Experiments Facial Recognition Female Firearms Human Humans Identification Implicit Bias Male Males Men Race Racial and Ethnic Differences Racial Bias Racial stereotypes Racism Reaction Time Social Categorization Social Groups Social Perception - psychology Stereotyped Attitudes Stereotypes Stereotyping Test Construction Weapons White People Young Adult social categorization diffusion decision model weapon identification task stereotyping intergroup bias
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