Implicit Rather Than Explicit Threat Predicts Attentional Bias Towards Black but Not Asian Faces in a White Undergraduate Population.

Visual attention biases towards other-race faces have previously been explained by explicit threat stereotyping and novelty of stimulus. This study found implicit, not explicit, attitudes towards threat predict attentional capture to Black but not Asian faces in White undergraduate students. Implicit processes may therefore partly underpin attentional biases.