We discussed a study conducted by Dovidio et al. (2002) in w…
We discussed a study conducted by Dovidio et al. (2002) in which White college students completed measures of explicit (conscious, self-report) racial attitudes and implicit (automatic, reaction time) racial attitudes. The students then had a brief interaction with a young Black woman, and researchers coded their behavior for signs of nonverbal coldness. The findings from this study showed that: