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. 2022 Nov 22;119(47):e2214740119.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.2214740119. Epub 2022 Nov 7.

No evidence for social factors in the overestimation of individuals from minority groups

Surya Gayet  1 , Andre Sahakian  1 , Chris L E Paffen  1 , Stefan Van der Stigchel  1
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No evidence for social factors in the overestimation of individuals from minority groups

Surya Gayet et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
Replication of Experiment 5 from Kardosh et al. (6), on two differently colored backgrounds: white (Left) or black (Right). Participants estimated the proportion of White (light gray dots) and African American faces (black dots) in Black-minority or White-minority stimulus displays.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 2.
Same as Fig. 1, but now African and White American faces were replaced by dark gray and light gray discs (depicted as black and light gray dots in the graph, respectively).
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