PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Psy, Psych, European Canadian
28 Sep 2020
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Stereotypes are not activated in every situation. Our attitudes toward members of another group are determined not only by our stereotype of that, but also by our perception of that group"s stereotype of us. Stereotypes lurk just beneath the surface- it doesn"t take much to activate a stereotype. Participants who had seen pictures of black faces were more likely to misidentify a tool as a gun than were participants. When a crime object, such as a gun, it is displayed on a computer screen, white uni students and police officers are quicker to identify black faces. Participants were especially likely to pull the trigger when the people in the pictures wre black, whether or not they were holding a gun. Shooter bias- people made relatively few errors when a black person was in fact holding a gun but also that they made the most errors, shooting an unarmed person, when a black person was not holding a fun.
