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“Race shaped people’s mistakes. They falsely claimed to see a gun more often when the face was black than when it was white. Under the pressure of a split-second decision, the readiness to see a weapon became an actual false claim of seeing a weapon."

Weapon Bias: Split-Second Decisions and Unintended Stereotyping

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Payne, B. Keith

Vol. 15 Issue 6, pp. 287–291, 2006

10.1111/j.1467-8721.2006.00454.x

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