... which aimed to find out the effect that ethnicity had on peoples perception of an event. The participants watched one of two videos in which two men had an argument and in end one punched the other one. In one version the person doing the punching was white and in the other the person was black. All the participants who took part were white American students at college. After watching one of the videos the participants were asked to describe what they had seen (if the behavior of the person doing the punching was playing around or violent behavior). The results showed that the perception and memory of the witness could be affected by the ethnicity of the aggressor. When the aggressor was white 67% of the participants said the behavior was playing around, when the aggressor was black 70% of the participants said that his behavior was violent. The ...

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