In the article “When Prejudice does not pay: Effects of Interracial Contact on Executive Functioning”, Richeson and Shelton found that people who score high on an implicit racial bias test, show the highest impairment on executive functioning, after interaction with a black experimenter. They state that this effect occurs when a member of the majority-group […]
Executive functioning is the mental ability to control and manage cognitive processes. It is a theoretical cognitive system that involves processes such as attention, abstract thinking, rule acquisition, initiating appropriate actions and inhibiting inappropriate actions and selecting relevant sensory information. Executive functioning is sometimes called central executive or cognitive control and plays an important role […]