TY - JOUR
T1 - When Fatigue Turns Deadly
T2 - The Association Between Fatigue and Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot
AU - Ma, Debbie S.
AU - Correll, Joshua
AU - Wittenbrink, Bernd
AU - Bar-Anan, Yoav
AU - Sriram, N.
AU - Nosek, Brian A.
N1 - Funding Information: Primary support for this work was provided by National Science Foundation Continuing Grant 0642580 to the second and third authors. Additional support was provided by the Booth School of Business. We thank Miho Goto, Elton Lor, and Ashley Meyer for their invaluable help with this research.
PY - 2013/11/1
Y1 - 2013/11/1
N2 - Racial bias in the decision to shoot can be minimized if individuals have ample cognitive resources to regulate automatic reactions. However, when individuals are fatigued, cognitive control may be compromised, which can lead to greater racial bias in shoot/don't-shoot decisions. The current studies provide evidence for this hypothesis experimentally using undergraduate participants (Study 1) and in a correlational design testing police recruits (Study 2). These results shed light on the processes underlying the decision to shoot and, given the high prevalence of fatigue among police officers, may have important practical implications.
AB - Racial bias in the decision to shoot can be minimized if individuals have ample cognitive resources to regulate automatic reactions. However, when individuals are fatigued, cognitive control may be compromised, which can lead to greater racial bias in shoot/don't-shoot decisions. The current studies provide evidence for this hypothesis experimentally using undergraduate participants (Study 1) and in a correlational design testing police recruits (Study 2). These results shed light on the processes underlying the decision to shoot and, given the high prevalence of fatigue among police officers, may have important practical implications.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2013.840630
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2013.840630
M3 - Article
SN - 0197-3533
VL - 35
SP - 515
EP - 524
JO - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
JF - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
IS - 6
ER -