Interracial Bias

Individuals associated with Dartmouth College and Princeton University created a study that deals with ironic effects of racial bias during interracial interaction. The study began off of the basis that individuals that have high levels of racial bias tend to regulate them selves when around others of another race. They often do this to make sure that their racial bias does not show. Individuals with low level of racial bias tended not to regulate themselves as much because they were more comfortable in their situation. Interestingly, researchers believed that individuals with high levels of racial bias were favored more by the opposite race. In order to confirm these hypotheses researchers created a study. In the study that researchers created they had interracial pairs (black/white) and intraracial pairs (white/white). Interracial and intraracial pairs were all same-sex. After the individuals became paired they were each individually taken to a room, given instructions and were prepared to take a test. The test that the participants took was a racial attitude called the Implicit Association Test (IAT). Upon completion of the test, participants were
All the topics were the same pertaining to race relations. After the interaction with each other, each participant was asked to fill out a survey about their interaction. To finish the study, the participants completed a task that was not related to the study, paid, and then released. The IAT test that this study used, wanted participants to categorize Black and White names and pleasing and unpleasing words as quickly as possible. Through the trials of this service, the levels of racial bias were formed. Participants were also asked questions about whether the new the participants they were interacting with, as well as, their favorability towards them. The last set of questions asked how interacted their partner