Participants in a study by Wittenbrink, Judd, and Park (2001) were asked to categorize words presented on a computer screen as English or non-English. Some of these words were related to the stereotype of Blacks or Whites. The results showed that:

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The study found that participants responded faster to negative Black stereotypic words after they had been subliminally primed with the word BLACK. This suggests that the stereotype of Blacks being associated with negativity had an unconscious influence on the participants' categorization of words as English or non-English.

Participants in a Study by Wittenbrink, Judd, and Park (2001)