The hidden consequences of racial salience in videotaped interrogations and confessions
| Autor: | G. Daniel Lassiter, Victoria M. Jager, Adam E. Hasinski, Matthew J. Lindberg, Jennifer K. Elek, Jennifer J. Ratcliff |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 16:200-218 |
| ISSN: | 1939-1528 1076-8971 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/a0018482 |
| Popis: | Evaluations of videotaped criminal confessions can be influenced by the camera perspective taken during recording. Interrogations and confessions recorded with the camera directing observers’ visual attention onto the suspect lead to biased judgments of the suspect. Although a camera perspective that directs visual attention onto the suspect and interrogator equally appears to promote unbiased judgments, investigations to date have relied on videotapes that depict only Caucasian suspects and interrogators. We examined the possibility that even equal-focus videotapes may become problematic when the suspect is a minority (e.g., Chinese American or African American) and the interrogator is Caucasian. That is, to the extent that Caucasian observers are inclined to direct more of their attention onto minorities, an effect documented previously, we expected biased judgments of the suspect to also occur in equal-focus videotapes. Three experiments provided evidence of this racial salience bias. Implications are discussed, including a practical way of avoiding the bias. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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