TY - JOUR
T1 - Prejudice concerns and race-based attentional bias
T2 - New evidence from eyetracking
AU - Bean, Meghan G.
AU - Slaten, Daniel G.
AU - Horton, William S.
AU - Murphy, Mary C.
AU - Todd, Andrew R.
AU - Richeson, Jennifer A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This work was supported in part by a John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship to JAR and a National Science Foundation Fellowship awarded to WSH (#IIS-0705901).
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - The present study used eyetracking methodology to assess whether individuals high in external motivation (EM) to appear nonprejudiced exhibit an early bias in visual attention toward Black faces indicative of social threat perception. Drawing on previous work examining visual attention to socially threatening stimuli, the authors predicted that high-EM participants, but not lower-EM participants, would initially look toward Black faces and then subsequently direct their attention away from these faces. Participants viewed pairs of images, some of which consisted of one White and one Black male face, while a desk-mounted eyetracking camera recorded their eye movements. Results showed that, as predicted, high-EM, but not lower-EM, individuals exhibited patterns of visual attention indicative of social threat perception.
AB - The present study used eyetracking methodology to assess whether individuals high in external motivation (EM) to appear nonprejudiced exhibit an early bias in visual attention toward Black faces indicative of social threat perception. Drawing on previous work examining visual attention to socially threatening stimuli, the authors predicted that high-EM participants, but not lower-EM participants, would initially look toward Black faces and then subsequently direct their attention away from these faces. Participants viewed pairs of images, some of which consisted of one White and one Black male face, while a desk-mounted eyetracking camera recorded their eye movements. Results showed that, as predicted, high-EM, but not lower-EM, individuals exhibited patterns of visual attention indicative of social threat perception.
KW - individual differences
KW - intergroup processes
KW - intergroup relations
KW - person perception
KW - social cognition
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U2 - 10.1177/1948550612436983
DO - 10.1177/1948550612436983
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84867694607
SN - 1948-5506
VL - 3
SP - 722
EP - 729
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
IS - 6
ER -