Being more negatively biased about a group can coexist with higher accuracy toward it

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. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 882

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what mechanism lets a perceiver be both more negatively biased and more attribute-sensitive toward the same target?
• SEED: Article angle: the common assumption that bias and inaccuracy travel together — this shows they can be orthogonal.
• XREF: connects to: Disagreement over evidence can stem from accuracy motives or identity motives — Sander van der Linden, Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects…, 140