TY - JOUR
T1 - Stereotyping ricochet
T2 - Complex effects of racial distinctiveness on identification accuracy
AU - Kleider, Heather M.
AU - Goldinger, Stephen
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NIH Grant 1-R01-DC0435-01 to Arizona State University. We thank Mark Blair, Michael Shaw, Dawnyell Linder, Maureen McCauliffe, Jennifer Berry, Karen Kontak, Michele Balhorn, Timothy Schorzman, and Antonio Morgan-Lopez for participating in the research as confederates. We also thank Steven Neuberg and Tamiko Azuma for helpful comments and suggestions.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Studies show that distinctive (e. g., attractive) people are better remembered than typical people (B. L. Cutler & S. D. Penrod, 1995). We investigated the effect of a Black person's presence on recognition accuracy for surrounding White individuals. Regarding eyewitness accuracy for an event, we expected more errors for White targets accompanied by Black confederates (experimental condition) than by White confederates (control). A staged accident was witnessed by participants, followed by a lineup. In 3 experiments, identification accuracy decreased in the experimental conditions, relative to control. Further data suggested that attention focused on the Black confederate reduced memory for the other confederates at the event. This pattern did not generalize to a condition substituting garish hair color for race, suggesting that racial distinctiveness, rather than general physical distinctiveness, contributed to the prior results.
AB - Studies show that distinctive (e. g., attractive) people are better remembered than typical people (B. L. Cutler & S. D. Penrod, 1995). We investigated the effect of a Black person's presence on recognition accuracy for surrounding White individuals. Regarding eyewitness accuracy for an event, we expected more errors for White targets accompanied by Black confederates (experimental condition) than by White confederates (control). A staged accident was witnessed by participants, followed by a lineup. In 3 experiments, identification accuracy decreased in the experimental conditions, relative to control. Further data suggested that attention focused on the Black confederate reduced memory for the other confederates at the event. This pattern did not generalize to a condition substituting garish hair color for race, suggesting that racial distinctiveness, rather than general physical distinctiveness, contributed to the prior results.
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1012706323913
DO - 10.1023/A:1012706323913
M3 - Article
C2 - 11771637
AN - SCOPUS:0035653701
SN - 0147-7307
VL - 25
SP - 605
EP - 627
JO - Law and human behavior
JF - Law and human behavior
IS - 6
ER -