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On racial diversity and group decision making: identifying multiple effects of racial composition on jury deliberations.
  • Samuel R. Sommers
  • Psychology
    Journal of personality and social psychology
  • 28 October 2006
TLDR
The influence of jury selection questions extended previous findings that blatant racial issues at trial increase leniency toward a Black defendant, demonstrating that the effects of diversity do not occur solely through information exchange.
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Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing
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It is shown that decreases in perceived bias against Blacks over the past six decades are associated with increases in perception of bias against Whites, reflecting Whites’ view of racism as a zero-sum game.
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Seeing race and seeming racist? Evaluating strategic colorblindness in social interaction.
TLDR
Four experiments involving a dyadic task investigated antecedents and consequences of Whites' acknowledgment of race, which was highly susceptible to normative pressure and most evident among individuals concerned with self-presentational aspects of appearing biased.
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Race in the Courtroom: Perceptions of Guilt and Dispositional Attributions
The present studies compare the judgments of White and Black mock jurors in interracial trials. In Study 1, the defendant’s race did not influence White college students’ decisions but Black students…
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Not so black and white: memory for ambiguous group members.
TLDR
Memory for biracial individuals seems to involve a flexible person construal process shaped by motivational factors, suggesting that uncertainty provides the motivational context for discounting ambiguous faces in memory.
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White Juror Bias: An Investigation of Prejudice Against Black Defendants in the American Courtroom
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Race and Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina: Analysis, Implications, and Future Research Questions
We analyze three aspects of media depictions of Hurricane Katrina, focusing on the relationship between race and coverage of the crisis. Examination of media language use explores the debate…
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Color Blindness and Interracial Interaction
TLDR
Avoidance of race was associated with Whites making less eye contact with and appearing less friendly toward Black partners, and Whites playing the Political Correctness Game were less likely to use race as a descriptor when paired with a Black partner than when pairing with a White partner, a strategy that impaired communication and performance.
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Race and the decision making of juries
The relationship between race and jury decision making is a controversial topic that has received increased attention in recent years. While public and media discourse has focused on anecdotal…
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Hopes Dashed and Dreams Fulfilled: Contingencies of Self-Worth and Graduate School Admissions
James (1890/1950) argued that self-esteem fluctuates around a typical level in response to successes and failures in domains on which self-worth is staked. In a test of James’s hypothesis, 32…
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