کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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5041912 | 1474163 | 2017 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- Continuous flash suppression (CFS) is employed to study unconscious racial bias.
- Own- and other-race faces are rendered imperceptible under the CFS.
- Imperceptible racial faces can bias subsequent evaluative judgement.
One triumph of the human mind is the ability to place the multitudinous array of people we encounter into in- and out-group members based on racial characteristics. One fundamental question that remains to be answered is whether invisible own- and other-race faces can nevertheless influence subsequent affective judgments. Here, we employed continuous flash suppression (CFS) to render own- and other-race faces unperceivable in an affective priming task. Both on-line and off-line awareness checks were employed to provide more stringent control of partial awareness. Results revealed that relative to own-race faces, imperceptible other-race faces significantly facilitated participants' identification of negative words, suggesting an other-race derogation bias. When faces were presented consciously, we found that not only other-race faces facilitated detection of negative words, but also own-race faces facilitated detection of positive words. These findings together provide novel and strong evidence suggesting that invisible racial faces can bias affective responses.
Journal: Consciousness and Cognition - Volume 48, February 2017, Pages 273-282