[USA] Police Outperformed Students And Community Members In Tests Of Speed And Decision-Making In Shoot/No-Shoot Simulations / Medical News Today, 5 June 2007
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"From three experiments of video simulations of shoot-no shoot decision scenarios with police officers, community members and college students, researchers determined that training and experience is effective in minimising decisions based on stereotyped views. The authors say that an officers' training/expertise yields faster responses, greater sensitivity to the presence of a weapon and reduced tendencies to shoot a suspect because of his or her race. At the same time, suspect race did affect the speed with which both police officers and community members could formulate their decisions."
Across the Thin Blue Line: Police Officers and Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007, Vol 92, No 6, 1006-1023
PDF - http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/psp9261006.pdf
Joshua Correll ; Bernadette Park ; Charles M. Judd ; Bernd Wittenbrink ; Melody S. Sadler ; Tracie Keesee