Abstract
Two experiments illustrate that the perception of a given time duration slows when white participants observe faces of black men, but only if participants are concerned with appearing biased. In Experiment 1 the concern with the appearance of bias is measured as a chronic state using the external motivation to respond without prejudice scale (Plant & Devine, 1998). In Experiment 2 it is manipulated by varying the race of the experimenter (black versus white). Time perception is assessed via a temporal discrimination task commonly used in the literature. Models of time perception identify arousal as a factor that causes perceived time to slow, and we speculate that arousal arising in intergroup interactions can alter time perception.
Highlights
Implicit bias is typically defined as stereotyping and prejudice that impacts people outside of awareness and without conscious intent [1]
The primary measure of the slowing of time was the point of subjective equality (PSE)
The PSE is a single period of time that represented the subjective perception of the comparison-stimulus duration being equal to the standard time of 600 ms
Summary
Implicit bias is typically defined as stereotyping and prejudice that impacts people outside of awareness and without conscious intent [1]. It arises when a stereotype or an attitude (or both) is triggered outside of awareness by a cue associated with a social group These “primed” stereotypes and affective responses manifest as bias toward that group by shaping how we categorize, where we allocate attention, the types of judgments and inferences we form, the expectations and standards we set, what we consider valid and veridical, how we feel, our approach and avoidance tendencies, and how we more generally act [2]. The facial features and skin tone of the drawings made of the face labeled “black” were more stereotypic (e.g., darker skin) than those labeled “white”. Such stereotypic drawings are evidence of the perceiver’s biased perception of the face that served as the model
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