Implicit race attitudes modulate visual information extraction for trustworthiness judgments

Black people are still considered to be one of the most stigmatized groups and have to face multiple prejudices that undermine their well-being. Assumptions and beliefs about other racial groups are quite pervasive and have been shown to impact basic social tasks such as face processing. For example...

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Published in:PloS one 2020-09, Vol.15 (9), p.e0239305-e0239305
Main Authors: Charbonneau, Isabelle, Robinson, Karolann, Blais, Caroline, Fiset, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attitude
Bias
Biology and Life Sciences
Black or African American
Black people
Blacks
Comparative analysis
Crime
Face
Facial Expression
Female
Frequency dependence
Happiness
Humans
Information retrieval
Judgment - ethics
Judgment - physiology
Male
Medicine and Health Sciences
Neurosciences
Pattern recognition
Prejudice
Psychological aspects
Psychological research
Race
Racism
Racism - ethics
Racism - psychology
Social aspects
Social Perception
Social Sciences
Stereotyping
Trust (Psychology)
Trustworthiness
Well being
White People - psychology
Whites
Young Adult
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Summary:Black people are still considered to be one of the most stigmatized groups and have to face multiple prejudices that undermine their well-being. Assumptions and beliefs about other racial groups are quite pervasive and have been shown to impact basic social tasks such as face processing. For example, individuals with high racial prejudice conceptualize other-race faces as less trustworthy and more criminal. However, it is unknown if implicit racial bias could modulate even low-level perceptual mechanisms such as spatial frequency (SF) extraction when judging the level of trustworthiness of other-race faces. The present study showed that although similar facial features are used to judge the trustworthiness of White and Black faces, own-race faces are processed in lower SF (i.e. coarse information such as the contour of the face and blurred shapes as opposed to high SF representing fine-grained information such as eyelashes or fine wrinkles). This pattern was modulated by implicit race biases: higher implicit biases are associated with a significantly higher reliance on low SF with White than with Black faces.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0239305