Jennifer L. Eberhardt is a psychology professor at Stanford University. She recently earned a $625,000 grant for her work on how unconscious racial biases factor into social interactions. Eberhardt’s work is even being used by police forces to improve how they work with communities.
According to Business Insider,
Her research has found that people are more likely to spot guns, knives, and other objects associated with crime after seeing black faces.
“When you expose people briefly to black faces before they see these crime objects, they’re able to tell what those crime objects are with a blurrier picture,” she said an interview with the MacArthur Foundation.
Here are some examples of the array of images that a study participant would view.
(Videos via Business Insider)
The study found that after viewing a series of images of black men, study participants are more likely to be able to make out a weapon even after seeing images of weapons that appear more blurry, than after seeing images of different races.
Here’s a brief video featuring Jennifer L. Eberhardt talking about her study with the MacArthur Foundation.
I am not surprised as merica wants to use Black folks as bogey men, thugs, criminals and the reason for everything that goes wrong in this country in the media. Why is it so important to point fingers at those different than you and to villainize them?
We have a rich history and current accomplishments that the media never or rarely tells, talks about or publishes but constantly focuses on the negative and the criminals! Ugh enough already! It is time for balance and the end of the stereotypes that demonize us as a race!
Yeah, one guy even saw a sandwich as a gun