Behavioral and Neural Responses to Errors Reflecting Racial Stereotypes
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2012
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Haverford College. Department of Psychology
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Past research has shown that mistakes reflecting stereotype bias (e.g. misidentifying a tool as a gun after being primed by a Black face) provoke larger error-related negativities (ERNs) than race-neutral mistakes (Amodio et al., 2004). The present study aimed to replicate this phenomenon and expanded the paradigm used in Amodio et al. (2004) in 3 ways: (1) by adding a different set of instructions, (2) by including a race other than Blacks (Asians), and (3) by including positive stereotypes. Results indicate that instruction types (race-salient or race-neutral) did not affect neural or behavioral responses errors involving stereotype associations. On the contrary, race affected neural and behavioral responses in varying directions. It should also be noted that the behavioral data from the present study are consistent with the findings from Amodio et al. (2004). On the contrary, the EEG data did not show the same pattern as Amodio et al. (2004).