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Even people who harbor positive sentiments toward immigrants imagine immigrants' faces as less trustworthy and less competent than US citizens' faces

Even people who harbor positive sentiments toward immigrants imagine immigrants' faces as less trustworthy and less competent than US citizens' faces
2024-07-24
(Press-News.org) Even people who harbor positive sentiments toward immigrants imagine immigrants' faces as less trustworthy and less competent than US citizens' faces

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306872

Article Title: Intergroup evaluative bias in facial representations of immigrants and citizens in the United States

Author Countries: USA

Funding: This work was facilitated by the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, grant #1764097 awarded to ART and grant #2215236 awarded to JWS. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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[Press-News.org] Even people who harbor positive sentiments toward immigrants imagine immigrants' faces as less trustworthy and less competent than US citizens' faces