By the time Gates had entered his house through a back door, a neighbor had already called the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police to report a potential burglary in progress. On July 16, 2009, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., returned home to find the lock on his front door jammed. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. įunding: This work was supported by Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, grant # 1523731 to ARD and 1625401 to RN. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and hosted at the Open Science Framework at the following URL. Received: SeptemAccepted: Published: June 6, 2018Ĭopyright: © 2018 Lundberg et al. PLoS ONE 13(6):Įditor: Christos Papadelis, Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, UNITED STATES In neither experiment did prime age moderate racial bias, suggesting that the implicit danger associations commonly evoked by younger Black versus White men appear to generalize to older Black versus White men.Ĭitation: Lundberg GJW, Neel R, Lassetter B, Todd AR (2018) Racial bias in implicit danger associations generalizes to older male targets. Process dissociation procedure analyses, which aim to isolate the unique contributions of automatic and controlled processes to task performance, further indicated that these effects were driven entirely by racial biases in automatic processing.
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In Experiment 2, we used different face primes of younger and older Black and White men, and participants categorized words as ‘threatening’ or ‘safe.’ Results consistently revealed robust racial biases in object and word identification: Dangerous objects and words were identified more easily (faster response times, lower error rates), and non-dangerous objects and words were identified less easily, after seeing Black face primes than after seeing White face primes.
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In Experiment 1, participants completed a sequential priming task wherein they categorized objects as guns or tools after seeing briefly-presented facial images of men who varied in age (younger versus older) and race (Black versus White). Across two experiments, we examined whether implicit stereotypes linking younger (~28-year-old) Black versus White men with violence and criminality extend to older (~68-year-old) Black versus White men.