Recent Studies Examining Police Behavior in "Shoot or Don't Shoot

question 119

Multiple Choice

Recent studies examining police behavior in "shoot or don't shoot" simulations have found that

• A) police and civilian participants show no differences in performance.
• B) racial bias in performance on the task tends to increase over time, unlike college student participants, who show the opposite pattern of results.
• C) even when they are able to avoid racial bias in their decisions, they sometimes take longer to make decisions that go against racial stereotypes.
• D) None of these

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