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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Racial stereotypes are often triggered by facial cues.
  • Facial information salience can influence decision-making and bias.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the salience of emotion versus race in faces affects racially biased weapon identification.
  • To explore the cognitive mechanisms underlying this moderation using diffusion decision modeling.

Main Methods:

  • Sequential priming task with male face primes (Black vs. White).
  • Manipulation of facial information salience (emotion vs. race).
  • Diffusion decision modeling to analyze cognitive processes.

Main Results:

  • Racial bias in weapon identification was weaker when emotion salience was heightened compared to race salience.
  • An initial bias account was supported: decision-making started closer to a 'gun' response for Black compared to White faces.
  • This initial bias was reduced when emotion information was more salient than race information.

Conclusions:

  • The salience of facial information, particularly emotion, can moderate racial bias in decision-making.
  • Cognitive processes, specifically initial response biases, are influenced by the interplay of facial cues.
  • Understanding these mechanisms is crucial for addressing racial bias in perception and judgment.