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“Police officers correctly responded more quickly to guns, but more slowly to nonguns, held by Black targets than by targets of any other race.” & “Reaction time bias to shoot Black targets increased as a function of … prejudice reported on the discrimination scale."
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The World Is Not Black and White: Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot in a Multiethnic Context
Journal of Social Issues
Vol. 68 Issue 2, pp. 286–313,
2012
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