Crime priming makes officers misremember Black faces as more stereotypically Black

Evidence

Being primed with crime led police officers to misremember a Black face as more stereotypically Black (e.g., more phenotypically Black) than it actually was. This finding suggests we project the images linking race and crime in our minds onto the people we encounter. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 403

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to eyewitness-memory distortion and to racial-bias research in policing (e.g., studies on officer identification accuracy).
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 403