The Sensitivity of Black and White Americans to Nonverbal Cues of Prejudice

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This study tested the following hypothesis: Black American Ss will be more skillful than white American Ss at perceiving and correctly identifying intentional and unintentional visual cues related to prejudice transmitted by white Americans. Two interviewees who were high in prejudice and two who were low in prejudice were videotaped interacting with black and white interviewers. Eighty black and white male and female university students were selected to look at the videotapes, shown without sound, and to indicate on a five-point-scale their perceptions of the degree to which each of the four was prejudiced. Black Ss could differentiate the high from the low prejudiced interviewees with greater accuracy than could the white Ss. Ss' responses which indicated which parts of the body had been most influential and Ss' responses concerning clues to prejudice are also discussed.

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