Prejudiced interactions: implicit racial bias reduces predictive simulation during joint action with an out-group avatar.

ABSTRACT: During social interactions people automatically apply stereotypes in order to rapidly categorize others. Racial differences are among the most powerful cues that drive these categorizations and modulate our emotional and cognitive reactivity to others. We investigated whether implicit racial bias may also shape hand kinematics during the execution of realistic joint actions with virtual in- and out-group partners. Caucasian participants were required to perform synchronous imitative or complementary reach-to-grasp movements with avatars that had different skin color (white and black) but showed identical action kinematics. Results demonstrate that stronger visuo-motor interference (indexed here as hand kinematics differences between complementary and imitative actions) emerged: i) when par

SUBMITTER: Sacheli LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5389129 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature