White people who have difficulty implicitly pairing black names with positive words also tend to be impaired on tasks requiring cognitive control after interacting with a black experimenter. A new functional imaging study finds that such subjects also show more activity in brain regions associated with cognitive control when looking at black faces that are irrelevant to their task.
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Gehring, W., Karpinski, A. & Hilton, J. Thinking about interracial interactions. Nat Neurosci 6, 1241–1243 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1203-1241
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