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Assumed race moderates spontaneous racial bias in a computer‐based police simulation
Author(s) -
Park Sang Hee,
Kim Hyeon Jeong
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/ajsp.12106
Subject(s) - officer , race (biology) , psychology , outgroup , social psychology , racial bias , law , political science , gender studies , sociology
We demonstrated that playing the roles of different outgroup races can elicit extrapersonal racial bias associated with respective racial groups. In a modified version of a computer‐based police simulation, the police officer's race was visually manipulated to be either B lack or W hite. K orean participants made quick decisions whether to shoot targets ( B lack or W hite, armed or unarmed) on screen. Comparison of behavioral bias in the task revealed that, as expected, playing the role of a W hite police officer was associated with a stronger bias against B lack targets compared to playing a B lack police officer's role. The result suggests that when a social category is activated, one's race‐related behavior can reflect one's beliefs about the biases that members of that category hold.