Making race salient in a trial reduces jurors’ racial bias

Evidence

Also consistent with the aversive racism framework, when racial issues are made salient during a trial (the phenomenon of race salience discussed in more detail below; Sommers & Ellsworth, 2000; 2001), jurors are less likely to exhibit racially biased responses. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 865

Categorization

• XREF: Opposite-direction manipulation to the reader’s correction-backfire question: salience (awareness) here suppresses bias, whereas threats to self-image might harden it.
• QUESTION: Does race salience reduce bias via self-monitoring suppression that only relocates bias to other judgments, mirroring aversive racism’s awareness mechanism?
• 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…, 865