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SUBMITTER: Cassidy BS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5999024 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cassidy Brittany S BS Krendl Anne C AC Stanko Kathleen A KA Rydell Robert J RJ Young Steven G SG Hugenberg Kurt K
Journal of experimental social psychology 20170705
The dehumanization of Black Americans is an ongoing societal problem. Reducing configural face processing, a well-studied aspect of typical face encoding, decreases the activation of human-related concepts to White faces, suggesting that the extent that faces are configurally processed contributes to dehumanization. Because Black individuals are more dehumanized relative to White individuals, the current work examined how configural processing might contribute to their greater dehumanization. St ...[more]