Krosch, A. R.; Amodio, D. M. (2014) "Economic scarcity alters the perception of ace," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (111), 25.
Previous research shows that economic competition between groups can lead an individual to perceive outgroup members as more threatening, In this study , racial differences on socioeconomic indices expand dramatically during economic recession. The goal of this study was to prove perceived scarcity influences people’s visual representations of race in a way that may promote discrimination during economic duress. In the first experiment, 70 subjects from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk were asked to answer demographic questionnaires and to identify a series of faces as Black or White. Results f study 1 found …show more content…
A word prime manipulated the concept of scarcity and was presented for 20-ms before the appearance of each face. The face then remained on the screen until the participant’s response, with a 2,000-ms deadline. Primes were either scarcity-related words, neutral words or negative words that were unrelated to scarcity. When primed with words relating to scarcity, subjects identified the face as black when it included 40% or more African-American facial content. Study 3 comprised two parts with two separate samples of subjects, the generation of Black face representations in a scarce vs. control resource context, and ratings of those representations. Part one. Consisted of 62 subjects who were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to play a game investigating how people allocate different amounts of money. Participants were randomly assigned to distribute either $10 out of $100 (the “scarcity” condition) or $10 out of $10 (the control condition). While waiting for a partner, they were shown pairs of faces and asked to choose which one was “most black.”. Subjects in the “scarcity” condition described blurred images of faces as more black than those in the control group. In the fourth experiment, 59 white individuals from Amazon’s Mechanical
Previous research shows that economic competition between groups can lead an individual to perceive outgroup members as more threatening, In this study , racial differences on socioeconomic indices expand dramatically during economic recession. The goal of this study was to prove perceived scarcity influences people’s visual representations of race in a way that may promote discrimination during economic duress. In the first experiment, 70 subjects from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk were asked to answer demographic questionnaires and to identify a series of faces as Black or White. Results f study 1 found …show more content…
A word prime manipulated the concept of scarcity and was presented for 20-ms before the appearance of each face. The face then remained on the screen until the participant’s response, with a 2,000-ms deadline. Primes were either scarcity-related words, neutral words or negative words that were unrelated to scarcity. When primed with words relating to scarcity, subjects identified the face as black when it included 40% or more African-American facial content. Study 3 comprised two parts with two separate samples of subjects, the generation of Black face representations in a scarce vs. control resource context, and ratings of those representations. Part one. Consisted of 62 subjects who were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to play a game investigating how people allocate different amounts of money. Participants were randomly assigned to distribute either $10 out of $100 (the “scarcity” condition) or $10 out of $10 (the control condition). While waiting for a partner, they were shown pairs of faces and asked to choose which one was “most black.”. Subjects in the “scarcity” condition described blurred images of faces as more black than those in the control group. In the fourth experiment, 59 white individuals from Amazon’s Mechanical