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Even people who harbor positive sentiments toward immigrants imagine immigrants' faces as less trustworthy and less competent than US citizens' faces

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Intergroup evaluative bias in facial representations of immigrants and citizens in the United States

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Depiction of the trial sequence in the stereotype misperception task.

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Credit: Hutchings et al., 2024, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Even people who harbor positive sentiments toward immigrants imagine immigrants' faces as less trustworthy and less competent than US citizens' faces

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306872

Article Title: Intergroup evaluative bias in facial representations of immigrants and citizens in the United States

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This work was facilitated by the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, grant #1764097 awarded to ART and grant #2215236 awarded to JWS. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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