The influence of face mask color on perceptions of African American and white men.

IF 1.7 4区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL Cognitive Processing Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2024-05-10 DOI:10.1007/s10339-024-01196-y
Lauren A Morris, Doris G Bazzini, Christopher J Holden, Savannah J Lee
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Despite their widespread use during the COVID-19 pandemic, face masks hinder abilities to interpret facial expressions. Yet, they can also reduce the appearance of characteristics that are used to categorize individuals into racial groups, such as Afrocentric features. The color of a face mask might also promote associations with certain types of behavior and professional occupations (e.g., blue surgical mask connoting physician stereotypes; black masks potentially being associated with criminality). This study assessed whether the presence and color of a face mask impacted perceptions of a target male of varying race. White participants (N = 250) were presented with an African American or White male adult face from the Chicago Face Database (of equal age and attractiveness) wearing a blue or black surgical mask, or no mask (Photoshopped onto the face) and rated the man on emotions (happy, sad, angry) as well as how trustworthy, threatening, and attractive the target appeared. Targets wearing a blue surgical mask were judged as more trustworthy and attractive than those wearing no mask (perhaps due to association with medical professions), but these judgements were not qualified by race, despite the African American target's selection based on Afrocentric features. The color black on a face mask did not exacerbate negative perceptions of targets, perhaps suggesting a decline effect in previously demonstrated associations between this color and criminal actions. Unlike previous research performed at the beginning of the Covid-19 Pandemic on cloth masks shown to potentially exacerbate racial biases, surgical masks (pleated and made of polymeric materials), appear to lessen potential stereotyping of Black relative to White men.

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面罩颜色对非裔美国人和白人男性看法的影响。
尽管在 COVID-19 大流行期间口罩被广泛使用,但口罩妨碍了解读面部表情的能力。然而,它们也会减少用于将个人划分为种族群体的特征的出现,如非洲裔特征。口罩的颜色还可能会让人联想到某些类型的行为和专业职业(例如,蓝色外科口罩意味着对医生的刻板印象;黑色口罩可能与犯罪有关)。本研究评估了口罩的存在和颜色是否会影响人们对不同种族男性目标人物的看法。白人参与者(N = 250)会看到一张来自芝加哥脸部数据库的非裔美国人或白人成年男性面孔(年龄和吸引力相同),面孔上戴着蓝色或黑色外科口罩,或没有戴口罩(Photoshop 合成的面孔),参与者会对该男子的情绪(快乐、悲伤、愤怒)以及目标人物的可信度、威胁性和吸引力进行评分。戴蓝色外科口罩的目标比不戴口罩的目标更值得信赖和更有吸引力(可能是由于与医学专业有关),但这些判断不受种族影响,尽管非裔美国人目标的选择是基于非洲裔特征。面罩上的黑色并没有加剧人们对目标的负面印象,这或许表明,之前证明的这种颜色与犯罪行为之间的关联性出现了下降效应。与之前在 19 世纪科维德大流行初期进行的关于布制口罩的研究不同,外科口罩(褶皱和聚合材料制成)可能会加剧种族偏见,而相对于白人男性,黑人口罩似乎减少了对黑人的潜在刻板印象。
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Cognitive Processing
Cognitive Processing PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-
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期刊介绍: Cognitive Processing - International Quarterly of Cognitive Science is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes innovative contributions in the multidisciplinary field of cognitive science.  Its main purpose is to stimulate research and scientific interaction through communication between specialists in different fields on topics of common interest and to promote an interdisciplinary understanding of the diverse topics in contemporary cognitive science. Cognitive Processing is articulated in the following sections:Cognitive DevelopmentCognitive Models of Risk and Decision MakingCognitive NeuroscienceCognitive PsychologyComputational Cognitive SciencesPhilosophy of MindNeuroimaging and Electrophysiological MethodsPsycholinguistics and Computational linguisticsQuantitative Psychology and Formal Theories in Cognitive ScienceSocial Cognition and Cognitive Science of Culture
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