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Direct linkLevin, Daniel T.; Banaji, Mahzarin R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
Although lightness perception is clearly influenced by contextual factors, it is not known whether knowledge about the reflectance of specific objects also affects their lightness. Recent research by O. H. MacLin and R. Malpass (2003) suggests that subjects label Black faces as darker than White faces, so in the current experiments, an adjustment…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Visual Perception, Visual Discrimination, Expectation
