My lab studies how inequality shapes the human mind. We ask questions like: Why do people sometimes act in prejudiced ways even when they intend to be fair?
Payne, B. K., Lambert, A. J., & Jacoby, L. L. (2002). Best laid plans: Effects of goals on accessibility bias and cognitive control in race-based misperceptions of weapons. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 38, 384-396.
showed greater race bias in their weapon claims (Payne, 2001). In another study, weapon bias correlated with individual dif-ferences in perceptions of cultural stereotypes about African Americans (Correll et al., 2002). To avoid the limitations of self-reports, a recent study had participants complete two popular
Below are some of the materials used in our experiments that researchers may wish to download. Pictographs; Weapon identification; Alcohol AMP (alcohol and water photos as primes)
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C. Daryl Cameron • B. Keith Payne • Joshua Knobe Published online: 30 November 2010 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 Abstract Recent research in social psychology suggests that people harbor ‘‘implicit race biases,’’ biases which can be unconscious or uncontrollable. Because
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782 B. Keith Payne, E. Corrigan / Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 43 (2007) 780–786 forgetting unpleasant information. The study used a tradi-tional intentional forgetting paradigm with emotionally pleasant and unpleasant words as items. Independent of coping styles, the results replicated the basic directed for-
C. Daryl Cameron and B. Keith Payne University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill As the number of people in need of help increases, the degree of compassion people feel for them ironically tends to decrease. This phenomenon is termed the collapse of compassion. Some
B. Keith Payne, Clara Michelle Cheng, Olesya Govorun, and Brandon D. Stewart The Ohio State University Misattributions people make about their own affective reactions can be used to measure attitudes implicitly.