
Join us virtually on Thursday, November 11th as we welcome our first speaker, Dr. Paige Lloyd, for her talk titled "Race-based sensitivity and bias effects in trust judgments".
Dr. Lloyd is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Denver.
Topic: The Cognitive Science of Racial Bias - Dr. Paige Lloyd
When: Nov 11, 2021, 4:00 PM Eastern Time
Title: "Race-based sensitivity and bias effects in trust judgments"
Abstract: When it comes to judgments of trust, people of color are often misunderstood and misjudged. For example, Black individuals represent 13% of the United States population, but 50% of wrongful convictions. Moreover, the genuine pain of Black patients is often inaccurately treated, which leads to poorer psychological and physical well-being for Black patients as compared to White patients. In my talk, I take a signal detection approach to discuss how race and race-based social motives influence judgments of trust via two distinct mechanisms: sensitivity and bias. Whereas sensitivity is the ability to “read” interpersonal cues, response bias is the tendency to favor one response over another. I investigate the roles of sensitivity and response bias in race disparities across two consequential trust contexts: lie detection and pain detection. Across both trust contexts, I demonstrate sensitivity deficits for minority group targets as compared to majority group targets. These sensitivity deficits have implications for a more comprehensive model of intergroup relations and for interventions to reduce race disparities in healthcare and legal domains.
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This event will feature a 60 minute presentation followed by an audience Q&A session with Dr. Lloyd.
This event is intended for individuals currently working or conducting research in the Cognitive Sciences or those who have an interest in racial bias and implicit bias. Email CCBS@osu.edu with any questions.