White participants in a psychology study were asked to decide,as rapidly as possible,whether an object that they had been briefly shown was a gun or a tool.Before seeing the picture,they were briefly shown a picture of either a black face or a white face.When the subjects saw a black face,they:

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The study suggests that racial bias influenced the participants' perceptions, leading them to identify guns more quickly and mistakenly identify tools as guns when primed with a black face.

White Participants in a Psychology Study Were Asked to Decide,as