The hypothesis of the experimental paper was to test if there was a relationship between one’s level of implicit race bias and his or her estimations of the trustworthiness of others [2]. Damian A. Stanley, Peter Sokol-Hessner, Mahzarin R. Banaji and Elizabeth A. Phelps used Implicit Association Test (IAT) to test the strength of a person’s automatic association between face and if its pleasant or unpleasant [2]. The experiment is being studied because they realized that people tend to conclude quickly upon someone right after seeing their racial background. Psychological and neurological work had showed that trustworthiness evaluations are made rapidly and automatically. They wanted to find out if trustworthiness will be affect towards someone
