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‘Black’-sounding name makes people imagine a larger, more dangerous person
October 7, 2015 by NewsBot
In a study exploring racial bias and how people use their mind's-eye image of an imagined person's size to represent someone as either threatening or high-status, researchers found that people envisioned men with stereotypically black names as bigger and more violent.
