White people show race bias when judging deception

(Association for Psychological Science) When making judgments about who is lying and who is telling the truth, new research shows that White people are more likely to label a Black person as a truth-teller compared with a White person, even though their spontaneous behavior indicates the reverse bias. The findings are published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 22, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news