Social Groups Prioritize Selective Attention to Faces: How Social Identity Shapes Distractor Interference.

Human faces automatically attract visual attention and this process appears to be guided by social group memberships. In two experiments, we examined how social groups guide selective attention toward in-group and out-group faces. Black and White participants detected a target letter among letter st...

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Main Authors: Gewnhi Park, Jay J Van Bavel, LaBarron K Hill, DeWayne P Williams, Julian F Thayer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4996497?pdf=render