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- Title
Effects of Race on Responses and Response Latencies in the Weapon Identification Task: A Test of Six Models.
- Authors
Klauer, Karl Christoph; Voss, Andreas
- Abstract
The authors consider six models of underlying process in the weapon identification task: The first two are response-time extensions of signal detection models; the last four, of the process dissociation model. Predictions for accuracy data, correct response latencies, and false response latencies are used to discriminate between models. In the present study, racial bias in responses and correct response latency was replicated. New findings were that the direction of bias was reversed in error latency and that errors were faster than correct responses. These findings rule out four models, in particular, the idea that race biases early perception and interpretation of targets. Implications for reducing errors in the weapon identification task and possibilities of discriminating between the remaining two models are discussed.
- Subjects
ETHNOLOGY; ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOHISTORY; MINORITIES; ETHNIC relations; ETHNIC groups; ETHNOSCIENCE; MARITIME anthropology; RACE relations
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 8, p1124
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167208318603