Recall That Payne and Colleagues Showed That White Participants Were

question 56

Multiple Choice

Recall that Payne and colleagues showed that white participants were faster to identify a weapon as a weapon when it was preceded by a picture of an African American face as opposed to a white face.Subsequent research suggests that this effect is due to

• A) a stereotypic association between handguns and African Americans.
• B) generally negative attitudes toward African Americans.
• C) deliberative cognitive processing of information about African Americans.
• D) motivated inattention to stereotype-inconsistent information.

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