African American perceivers held more negative views yet were more stereotyping-sensitive

Evidence

The analysis of sensitivity correlations suggested that African American perceivers were more accurate in judging between-attribute differences in stereotypicality. Thus, the larger discrepancy scores can be attributed to the tendency for African American participants to judge all targets, but particularly white targets, negatively. At the same time, however, African American perceivers were more sensitive to the variation from attribute to attribute in the degree to which the target groups self-reported that they possessed those attributes. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 882

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is this a genuine perceptual advantage among minority perceivers (vigilance hypothesis), or an artifact of how sensitivity correlations were computed alongside bias measures?
• XREF: Evokes the broader literature on minority-group perceptual accuracy about majority-group members, especially vigilance-accuracy tradeoff studies in social psychology. — connects to: Radio’s racial stereotypes reinforced blacks’ second-class status — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 320
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 882