Prejudice drives exogenous attention to outgroups

Volume: 15, Issue: 6, Pages: 615 - 624
Published: Jun 1, 2020
Abstract
Exogenous attention allows the automatic detection of relevant stimuli and the reorientation of our current focus of attention towards them. Faces from an ethnic outgroup tend to capture exogenous attention to a greater extent than faces from an ethnic ingroup. We explored whether prejudice toward the outgroup, rather than lack of familiarity, is driving this effect. Participants (N = 76) performed a digit categorization task while distractor...
Paper Details
Title
Prejudice drives exogenous attention to outgroups
Published Date
Jun 1, 2020
Volume
15
Issue
6
Pages
615 - 624
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