A Superhumanization Bias in Whites’ Perceptions of Blacks

By Adam Waytz, Kelly M. Hoffman, Sophie Trawalter. 2015

147 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/70c03579b44fed094fd50d383b62187209025838

How researchers see this paper

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Kelly M. Hoffman
2. Sophie Trawalter

In Social Psychology

1. Jordan R. Axt
2. Kelly M. Hoffman
3. Sophie Trawalter

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jordan R. Axt
2. Kelly M. Hoffman
3. Sophie Trawalter

Citations in the corpus

• Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites (2016, background): “Research suggests that people even believe that black people are more likely than white people to be capable of fantastical mental and physical feats, such as withstanding extreme heat from burning coals (17).”