Bonus Episode: How Virtual Reality Can Help Detect Racial Bias in Police Shootings with John Tawa, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

Kim Mills

Health & Fitness, Life Sciences, Science, Mental Health

4.3 • 781 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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There's been a great deal of media attention focused on shootings in which a white police officer fired on a black or non-white suspect. Psychology has for years performed research to determine whether racial hostility plays a role in such shootings. These studies have usually entailed having participants sit in front of a computer screen and respond to images of suspects who pop up holding a gun or a benign object such as a wallet or a can of soda. These experiments are helpful. But is there a better way to study this phenomenon so we can curb these types of shootings? Our guest is John Tawa, PhD, of Mount Holyoke College who has developed a new and perhaps more realistic method for testing these responses. Join us online August 6-8 for APA 2020 Virtual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.9	Hey, everyone. It's Caitlin Luna, host of Speaking of Psychology.
0:35.8	This episode was recorded during APA's Technology, Mind,
0:39.3	and Society Conference held in October 2019 in Washington, D.C. I was away on maternity leave
0:45.5	during that time, so my colleague Kim Mills was a guest host. We hope you like this episode.
0:51.2	Hello, and welcome to Speaking of Psychology, a bi-weekly podcast from the American Psychological
0:56.4	Association that helps explain how the science of psychology is connected to everyday life.
1:01.4	I'm your host, Kim Mills.
1:03.5	There has been a great deal of media attention focused on shootings in which a white police
1:07.6	officer fired on a black or non-white suspect.
1:16.6	Psychology has for years performed research to determine whether racial animus plays a role in such shootings. These studies have usually entailed having participants sit in front of a computer screen
1:21.6	and respond to images of suspects who pop up holding a gun or a benign object such as a wallet or a can of soda.
1:30.7	These experiments are helpful, but is there a better way to study this phenomenon so we can
1:35.5	curb these types of shootings? I'm here today with Dr. John Tawa of Mount Holyoke College,
1:41.4	who has developed a new and perhaps more realistic method for testing
1:44.6	these responses. Dr. Tawa is an assistant professor of psychology at Mount Holyoke, where he
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