White participants 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 participants saw a black face, they

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

When participants were primed with a black face, they were more likely to incorrectly identify tools as guns, demonstrating an implicit bias associating black faces with dangerous objects.

White Participants Were Asked to Decide, as Rapidly as Possible