How prior information and police experience impact decisions to shoot.
Volume: 115, Issue: 4, Pages: 601 - 623
Published: Oct 1, 2018
Abstract
Social psychologists have relied on computerized shooting tasks to test whether race influences decisions to shoot. These studies reveal that under some conditions untrained individuals shoot unarmed Black men more than unarmed White men. We modeled the decision to shoot as a sequential sampling process in which people start out with prior biases and accumulate evidence over time until a threshold is reached, prompting a decision. We used this...
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Title
How prior information and police experience impact decisions to shoot.
Published Date
Oct 1, 2018
Volume
115
Issue
4
Pages
601 - 623
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