POL SCI 164A Chapter 5: PS 164A Eberhardt Reading
24 Feb 2018
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Ps 164a reading seeing black, eberhardt et al. Study 1 - black faces influence participant ability to spontaneously detect degraded images of crime relevant objects. Exposure to faces decrease perceptual threshold for quickly recognizing crime relevant objects (regardless of participants" explicit racial attitudes) Method: primed with black/white/no faces, then shown degraded to less degraded images of either crime relevant/irrelevant objects, asked to press button when they recognized the object and write down the name of the object. Results: black/white face primes facilitated/inhibited detection of crime relevant objects. Study 2-4 - activating abstract concepts (ex. Basketball and crime) induces attentional biases toward black male faces. 2: exposing people to crime relevant objects prompts focus on black male faces - suggest bidirectionality of black-criminality association. Result: when dot probe placed in the location of black face, participants primed with crime would detect the dot probe faster.
