Out of sight, out of mind: Racial retrieval cues increase the accessibility of social justice concepts
Out of sight, out of mind: Racial retrieval cues increase the accessibility of social justice concepts
Photographs provide critical retrieval cues for personal remembering, but few studies have considered this phenomenon at the collective level. In this research, we examined the psychological consequences of visual attention to the presence (or absence) of racially charged retrieval cues within American racial segregation photographs. We hypothesised that attention to racial retrieval cues embedded in historical photographs would increase social justice concept accessibility. In Study 1, we recorded gaze patterns with an eye-tracker among participants viewing images that contained racial retrieval cues or were digitally manipulated to remove them. In Study 2, we manipulated participants’ gaze behaviour by either directing visual attention toward racial retrieval cues, away from racial retrieval cues, or directing attention within photographs where racial retrieval cues were missing. Across Studies 1 and 2, visual attention to racial retrieval cues in photographs documenting historical segregation predicted social justice concept accessibility.
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Salter, Phia
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Kelley, Nicholas
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Molina, Ludwin
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Thai, Luyen
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14 September 2017
Salter, Phia
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Kelley, Nicholas
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Molina, Ludwin
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Thai, Luyen
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Salter, Phia, Kelley, Nicholas, Molina, Ludwin and Thai, Luyen
(2017)
Out of sight, out of mind: Racial retrieval cues increase the accessibility of social justice concepts.
Memory, 25 (8), .
(doi:10.1080/09658211.2016.1274037).
Abstract
Photographs provide critical retrieval cues for personal remembering, but few studies have considered this phenomenon at the collective level. In this research, we examined the psychological consequences of visual attention to the presence (or absence) of racially charged retrieval cues within American racial segregation photographs. We hypothesised that attention to racial retrieval cues embedded in historical photographs would increase social justice concept accessibility. In Study 1, we recorded gaze patterns with an eye-tracker among participants viewing images that contained racial retrieval cues or were digitally manipulated to remove them. In Study 2, we manipulated participants’ gaze behaviour by either directing visual attention toward racial retrieval cues, away from racial retrieval cues, or directing attention within photographs where racial retrieval cues were missing. Across Studies 1 and 2, visual attention to racial retrieval cues in photographs documenting historical segregation predicted social justice concept accessibility.
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 December 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 16 January 2017
Published date: 14 September 2017
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