+ Eliminating automatic racial bias: Making race non-diagnostic for responses to criminal suspects
- Author:
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Plant, E. A. / Peruche, B. M. / Butz, D. A.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Topics:
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Crime, Education/Counseling, Ethnicity
- Keywords:
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computer simulation, criminal suspects, racial bias, shooting
The authors conducted four experiments in order to determine whether it was possible to mitigate or eliminate racial bias in the decision to shoot a criminal suspect in a computer simulation. Non-Black...
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+ Targets of discrimination: Effects of race on responses to weapons holders
- Author:
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Greenwald, A. G. / Oakes, M. A. / Hoffman, H. G.
- Date:
- 2003
- Publication:
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Topics:
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Criminology, Ethnicity, Gun Carrying, Law Enforcement, Social Science
- Keywords:
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Race, Weapon carrying, simulated shooting
The authors examined the effect of race on rapid decisions towards persons holding weapons acted out in 2 computer-simulated tasks. Participants in this experiment responded to simulated (a) criminals...
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+ Interactive effects of life experience and situational cues on aggression: The weapons priming effect in hunters and nonhunters
- Author:
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Bartholow, Bruce D. / Anderson, Craig A. / Carnagey, Nicholas L. / Benjamin, Arlin J., Jr.
- Date:
- 2005
- Publication:
- Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
- Topics:
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Public Opinion, Recreational Use
- Keywords:
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Aggressive Behavior, aggression, life experience, situational cues, weapons priming effect
Three different experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between the presence of guns and aggression in hunters versus nonhunters. For all three experiments, participants were male undergraduate...
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