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“Collectively … results … provide suggestive evidence that it is an urge to provide a socially desirable response, not a desire for racial justice, that makes whites less likely to state that shooting is justified when explicit racial cues are present."

Racial Conservatism, Self-Monitoring, and Perceptions of Police Violence
Politics, Groups and Identities
in Press,
2020
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