PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Rodney King
2 Apr 2013
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For blacks who murdered whites, stereotypicality predicted. Dehumanization and state violence sentencing: white people were the highest evolved of the races (1800s, negro-ape metaphor. California police slang for cases involving young black men: An officer involved in the rodney king beating referring to a black couple"s domestic dispute: It was right out of gorillas in the mist . Race prime and ape detection: animal (ape vs. cat) emerged slowly from noise. Will ps spot ape images faster after being primed with black (vs. white) faces: faster to detect ape images after being primed with black faces. Dehumanization and police violence: iv: ps subliminally primed with ape or cat words, saw police violence video, iv: black/white suspect, dv: endorsing aggression. After video, ps rated how justified it was for the police to beat the suspect. Line-ups: misidentifications: ps saw a staged act of vandalism, after which they attended a line-up, iv 1: instructions received.
