Sensitization and prejudice.

Slides were shown to two groups of Ss, selected previously for high and low ethnocentrism. Half of the Ss in each group were shown a critical slide picturing a Negro attacking a white man with a knife, the other half were shown a similar slide picturing a white man attacking a Negro with a knife. Recall measures of picture content were then taken. An analysis of the results revealed that the superior recall of the critical pictures attributed to those high in prejudice, when congruous material is presented, was attributed to sensitization. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)