Within-person dynamics of attention to race and expression of race bias: a real-time test of the self-regulation of prejudice model.

ABSTRACT: Prior research has supported some aspects of a theorized prejudice self-regulation model. We provide the first test of the full model-based process of bias regulation as it unfolds in real time. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from White undergraduates at two large American universities (N = 130; 40% female) during a racial stereotype priming task. Attention to Black male face primes, indexed by the P2 ERP, increased following self-regulation failures. In turn, within-person, trial-to-trial variability in attention to Black male faces predicted variability in bias expression. The latter effect was moderated by individual differences in internal motivation to respond without prejudice (IMS). Specifically, among lower-IMS individuals, trials in which Black faces elicited relati

SUBMITTER: Brancaleone PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11980601 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature