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Culture / Ethnicity / Race

(PS5-A20) Intervening on Implicit Bias with Facial Emotion Recognition Training

Friday, November 17, 2023
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM PST
Location: Regency Ballroom, Level 7
Implicit bias is among the many factors that contribute to disparities in health care, law enforcement, employment, and education. Given that students rely on the education system to maintain their commitment to education excellence and equal access, it’s important for the education system to become aware of implicit bias. One implicit bias that may impact educators’ bias on student behavior is the inaccurate perception of emotional expression that is especially prominent for Black individuals. Emotion recognition includes the ability to accurately assess what someone is feeling and a lack of consistent misjudgment about what someone is feeling. The tendency for outgroups of Black communities to misidentify expressions of emotion in Black or racially ambiguous faces is known as anger race bias. The present study examined if anger race bias could be reduced through emotion identification training. Faces from the Chicago Face Database were used to train participants on the emotions of neutrality, fear, and anger. Participants identified emotions on a series of Black, White, LatinX, and Asian faces on pre-and post-test measures. Two weeks following the post-test, participants were invited to complete a follow-up test to determine their retention of the training. We found that the experimental group accurately identified more facial expressions on average than the control group. These preliminary results demonstrate feasibility in developing emotion recognition training to decrease anger race bias with the potential to be helpful in school settings. 
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