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Attention and Working Memory Biases to Black and Asian Faces During Intergroup Contexts
Categorizing and individual as a racial ingroup or outgroup member results in processing and memory differences. However, despite processing differences for racial ingroups and outgroups, very little is known about processing of racial ingroup and outgroup members during intergroup contexts. Thus, t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30687191 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02743 |
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author | Gonzalez, Guadalupe D. S. Schnyer, David M. |
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description | Categorizing and individual as a racial ingroup or outgroup member results in processing and memory differences. However, despite processing differences for racial ingroups and outgroups, very little is known about processing of racial ingroup and outgroup members during intergroup contexts. Thus, the present research investigated attention and memory differences for racial ingroup and outgroup members during competition for attention (i.e., intergroup contexts). In experiment 1, event-related potentials (ERPs) were obtained while participants completed a working memory task that presented 4 faces (2 Black, 2 White) at once then, following a short delay, were probed to indicate the spatial location of one of the faces. Participants showed better location memory for Black than White faces. During encoding, ERP results revealed differences based on the race of the face in P300 amplitudes, such that there was greater motivated processing when attending to Black faces. At probe, the N170 indicated enhanced early processing of Black faces and greater LPCs were associated with better recollection of Black face location. In a follow-up study using the same task, we examined attention and working memory biases for Asian and White faces in Caucasian and Asian participants. Results for both Caucasian and Asian participants indicated better working memory for Asian relative to White faces. Together, results indicate that during intergroup contexts, racial minority faces capture attention, resulting in better memory for those faces. The study underscores that examining racial biases with single stimuli paradigms obscures important aspects of attention and memory biases during intergroup contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-63337102019-01-25 Attention and Working Memory Biases to Black and Asian Faces During Intergroup Contexts Gonzalez, Guadalupe D. S. Schnyer, David M. Front Psychol Psychology Categorizing and individual as a racial ingroup or outgroup member results in processing and memory differences. However, despite processing differences for racial ingroups and outgroups, very little is known about processing of racial ingroup and outgroup members during intergroup contexts. Thus, the present research investigated attention and memory differences for racial ingroup and outgroup members during competition for attention (i.e., intergroup contexts). In experiment 1, event-related potentials (ERPs) were obtained while participants completed a working memory task that presented 4 faces (2 Black, 2 White) at once then, following a short delay, were probed to indicate the spatial location of one of the faces. Participants showed better location memory for Black than White faces. During encoding, ERP results revealed differences based on the race of the face in P300 amplitudes, such that there was greater motivated processing when attending to Black faces. At probe, the N170 indicated enhanced early processing of Black faces and greater LPCs were associated with better recollection of Black face location. In a follow-up study using the same task, we examined attention and working memory biases for Asian and White faces in Caucasian and Asian participants. Results for both Caucasian and Asian participants indicated better working memory for Asian relative to White faces. Together, results indicate that during intergroup contexts, racial minority faces capture attention, resulting in better memory for those faces. The study underscores that examining racial biases with single stimuli paradigms obscures important aspects of attention and memory biases during intergroup contexts. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-01-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6333710/ /pubmed/30687191 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02743 Text en Copyright © 2019 Gonzalez and Schnyer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Gonzalez, Guadalupe D. S. Schnyer, David M. Attention and Working Memory Biases to Black and Asian Faces During Intergroup Contexts |
title | Attention and Working Memory Biases to Black and Asian Faces During Intergroup Contexts |
title_full | Attention and Working Memory Biases to Black and Asian Faces During Intergroup Contexts |
title_fullStr | Attention and Working Memory Biases to Black and Asian Faces During Intergroup Contexts |
title_full_unstemmed | Attention and Working Memory Biases to Black and Asian Faces During Intergroup Contexts |
title_short | Attention and Working Memory Biases to Black and Asian Faces During Intergroup Contexts |
title_sort | attention and working memory biases to black and asian faces during intergroup contexts |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333710/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30687191 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02743 |
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