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Attending to Threat: Race-based Patterns of Selective Attention

UnHope20

February 20, 2022

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Title	Attending to Threat: Race-based Patterns of Selective Attention
Author	UnHope20
Upvotes	5
Comments	2
Date	February 20, 2022 7:52 PM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Male_Studies
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/Male_Studies/comments/sx9pmj/attending_to_threat_racebased_patterns_of/
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[–]UnHope20[S] 2 points3 points4 points 4 years ago (1 child) | Copy Link

The present research investigated the extent to which the stereotype that young Black men are threatening and dangerous has become so robust and ingrained in the collective American unconscious that Black men now capture attention, much like evolved threats such as spiders and snakes.

Specifically, using a dot-probe detection paradigm, White participants revealed biased attention toward Black faces relative to White faces (Study 1). Because the faces were presented only briefly (30-ms), the bias is thought to reflect the early engagement of attention.

The attentional bias was eliminated, however, when the faces displayed averted eye-gaze (Study 2). That is, when the threat communicated by the Black faces was attenuated by a relevant, competing socio-emotional cue– in this case, averted eye-gaze–they no longer captured perceivers’ attention.

[–]Zinziberruderalis 1 point2 points3 points 4 years ago (0 children) | Copy Link