Stereotypic vision: How stereotypes disambiguate visual stimuli

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 219-233

  Correll, Joshua ^a   Wittenbrink, Bernd ^b   Crawford, Matthew T ^c   Sadler, Melody S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal; Danger; Stereotype; Visual attention; Weapon

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ASSOCIATION; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FIREARM; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM; REACTION TIME; STEREOTYPING; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CUES; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RACISM; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84925393776     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/pspa0000015     Document Type: Article

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