Prejudice Affects Perception Of Ethnic Minority Faces

Thursday, November 27, 2008 - 01:44 in Psychology & Sociology

Prejudice can be a powerful influence, biasing the way we think about and act towards ethnic minorities. Now, a new study revels that the way people view ethnic minority faces is related to their level of prejudice. It turns out that the visualized faces based on the choices of prejudiced people were characterized by another group as being more criminal-looking.

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