Correll, J., Park, B., Judd, C. M., & Wittenbrink, B. (2002). The police officer& #39;s dilemma: Using ethnicity to disambiguate potentially threatening individuals.
Using a simple videogame, the effect of ethnicity on shoot/don't shoot decisions was examined. African American or White targets, holding guns or other objects, appeared in complex backgrounds. Participants were told to "shoot" armed targets and to "not shoot" unarmed targets. In Study 1, participants made the correct decision to shoot an armed target more quickly if the target was African American than if he ...