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Distortion in time perception as a result of concern about appearing biased

Moskowitz, Gordon B
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Okten, Irmak Olcaysoy
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Gooch, Cynthia M
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2017-08-08
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Adolescent
 African Americans
 Analysis of Variance
 Discrimination, Psychological
 European Continental Ancestry Group
 Facial Recognition
 Female
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 Humans
 Male
 Motivation
 Psychological Tests
 Racism
 Regression Analysis
 Social Behavior
 Time Perception
 Young Adult
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10.1371/journal.pone.0182241
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Two experiments illustrate that the perception of a given time duration slows when white participants observe faces of black men, but only if participants are concerned with appearing biased. In Experiment 1 the concern with the appearance of bias is measured as a chronic state using the external motivation to respond without prejudice scale (Plant & Devine, 1998). In Experiment 2 it is manipulated by varying the race of the experimenter (black versus white). Time perception is assessed via a temporal discrimination task commonly used in the literature. Models of time perception identify arousal as a factor that causes perceived time to slow, and we speculate that arousal arising in intergroup interactions can alter time perception.
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