RT Article
T1 Automatic Prejudice and Weapon Identification: A Study with Students and Police Officers
JF Race and social problems
VO 15
IS 2
SP 154
OP 165
A1 Dantas, Gilcimar Santos
A2 Alves, Marcus Vinicius
A2 Pereira, Marcos Emanoel
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1843762595
AB The objective of this study was to explore police officers’ beliefs, meaning whether a “crime priming” is capable of showing automatic prejudice in the identification of weapons and whether a crime reduction priming can mitigate it, seeking to understand which processes can make the expression of racism more evident. With that we conducted two experiments with police officers (N = 80) and university students (N = 77) randomly allocated to an experimental group subjected to crime priming. In the second experiment we submitted the groups to a criminal's rehabilitation priming. In Study 1, crime priming contributed to shorter response times for both guns and tools preceded by a black individual's face. Under rehabilitation priming, participants showed longer response times for both guns and tools, an effect intensified when preceded by a black individual's face. With regard to hits, more hits occurred for guns than for tools, a result unaffected by the experimental manipulation. With regard to hits, more hits occurred for gun than for tool, a result unaffected by the experimental manipulation. In the 500 ms time-limited phase (study 2), there was no effect of the priming types on response times, with only a higher hit rate for black individual's faces. With that, questions about the importance of replicating WIT results in a more mixed sample in which both the control group and the police officers group can be considered as coming from minorities (i.e. blacks and latinx).
K1 Weapon
K1 Priming
K1 Racism
K1 Automatism
K1 Crime
DO 10.1007/s12552-022-09373-4