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Greenwald and his colleagues (2003) asked both black and white participants to press a shoot button when the target appeared to be holding a gun (rather than a harmless object such as a flashlight). their results showed that all participants mistakenly shot at more targets who were black. the results suggest that

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The results suggest that automatic, implicit prejudice exists.
The 2003 Greenwald study resulted in both white and black participants wrongfully pressing the "shoot" button when a harmless black person appeared on the screen. This most likely happen because of the misrepresentation that being done in media

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