A new study reveals that even unconscious racism has real effects: those with unconscious biases against black (or, more rarely, white) people treated them differently in a game involving money.
According to ABC, psychologists tested subjects for conscious and unconscious racism, and then asked them to rate the trustworthiness of black and white faces. They then assigned them to play “a trust-based economic reward game” with either a black or a white partner. They found that people who had shown an unconscious bias against black people were less likely to rate them as trustworthy, and risked less money with black partners than with white ones. The few subjects with an anti-white bias treated white partners with similar distrust.
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