This study employed the first-person shooter task(FPST: Correll, Park, Judd, & Wittenbrink, 2002) paradigm to examine racial bias toward Blacks in a population unrelated to the Black-White racial context. We tested whether having Korean participants play the role of a White police officer portrayed as nonracist (vs. racist) would attenuate the bias to shoot Black suspects. Participants were told that they would perform a police simulation task as a White police officer, who was described as racist or nonracist, or was presented without a description. They then performed the FPST. Although nonracist description lowered shooter bias, racist description weakened it even more, contrary to our prediction. The latter result is interpreted as due to activation of an egalitarian goal after reading about racism-related description, especially as the description was about someone who was to be incorporated to the self. Supporting this interpretation, a mediation analysis involving Racist and Control conditions revealed that the racist description was associated with stronger perception of the officer’s racial bias, which in turn was correlated with weaker shooter bias.

Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Method
 3. Results
  3.1. Shooter bias as a function of Condition
  3.2. Condition-shooter bias relation asmediated by perceived bias
  3.3. Condition main effect on RT
 4. Discussion
 REFERENCES

• Yeong Ock Park(Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University)
• Hyeon Jeong Kim(Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University)
• Sang Hee Park(Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University)