Missing context from experimental studies amplifies, rather than negates, racial bias in the real world

Authors
Publication date 2022
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Article number e78
Volume | Issue number 45
Number of pages 3
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract

We agree with Cesario's premise but reject his conclusion: Although experimental studies of racial stereotyping, weapons perception, and shoot decisions typically exclude real-world contextual factors and thus have limited relevance to race disparities (e.g., in policing), these excluded factors comprise systemic, institutional, and individual-level biases that are more likely to amplify racial disparities than negate them.

Document type Article
Note Open peer commentary to: J. Cesario (2022) What can experimental studies of bias tell us about real-world group disparities? In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45:e66.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000868
Other links https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000017
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