Looking the part (to me): effects of racial prototypicality on race perception vary by prejudice.

ABSTRACT: Less racially prototypic faces elicit more category competition during race categorization. Top-down factors (e.g. stereotypes), however, affect categorizations, suggesting racial prototypicality may enhance category competition in certain perceivers. Here, we examined how prejudice affects race category competition and stabilization when perceiving faces varying in racial prototypicality. Prototypically low vs high Black relative to White faces elicited more category competition and slower response latencies during categorization (Experiment 1), suggesting a pronounced racial prototypicality effect on minority race categorization. However, prejudice predicted the extent of category competition between prototypically low vs high Black faces. Suggesting more response conflict toward less pr

SUBMITTER: Cassidy BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5390701 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature