The role of expression and race in weapons identification

Emotion

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1115-1124

  Kubota, Jennifer T ^a   Ito, Tiffany A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Facial expressions; Implicit bias; Race; Race bias malleability; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

ANGRY; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMOTIONALITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MULTIRACIAL PERSON; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; RACE; STEREOTYPY; THREAT; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT; WEAPON; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANGER; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STEREOTYPING;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANGER; EMOTIONS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; STEREOTYPING; WEAPONS;

EID: 84922526941     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0038214     Document Type: Article

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