Citation

Thiem KC, Neel R, Simpson AJ, Todd AR. Person. Soc. Psychol. Bull. 2019; ePub(ePub): 146167219829182.

Affiliation

University of California, Davis, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0146167219829182

PMID

30895905

Abstract

We investigated whether stereotypes linking Black men and Black boys with violence and criminality generalize to Black women and Black girls. In Experiments 1 and 2, non-Black participants completed sequential-priming tasks wherein they saw faces varying in race, age, and gender before categorizing danger-related objects or words. Experiment 3 compared task performance across non-Black and Black participants.

RESULTS revealed that (a) implicit stereotyping of Blacks as more dangerous than Whites emerged across target age, target gender, and perceiver race, with (b) a similar magnitude of racial bias across adult and child targets and (c) a smaller magnitude for female than male targets. Evidence for age bias and gender bias also emerged whereby (d) across race, adult targets were more strongly associated with danger than were child targets, and (e) within Black (but not White) targets, male targets were more strongly associated with danger than were female targets.

Language: en

Keywords

implicit social cognition; intersectionality; process dissociation procedure; racial bias; stereotyping