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 or a white face. When the subjects saw a black face, they:

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The study likely demonstrates implicit racial bias, where seeing a black face primes participants to associate it with danger, leading to quicker identification of guns and more errors in identifying tools as guns.

White Participants in a Psychology Study Were Asked to Decide