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“Reading about Black criminals dramatically increased … tendency to make a stereotypic pattern of errors (shooting unarmed Blacks, failing to shoot armed Whites)… When information reinforced … the stereotypic link between Blacks and danger … errors increased."
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The Influence of Stereotypes on Decisions to Shoot
European Journal of Social Psychology
Vol. 37 Issue 6, pp. 1102–1117,
2007
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