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Author: David J. Johnson, Joseph Cesario, and Timothy J. Pleskac

How prior information and police experience impact decisions to shoot

January 1, 2018 David J. Johnson, Joseph Cesario, and Timothy J. Pleskac

Social psychologists have relied on computerized shooting tasks to test whether race influences decisions to shoot. These studies reveal that…

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Posted in: Choice Environment, Evidence Accumulation, Police Shootings, Real World Scenario Filed under: publication

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