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Race Logic: Measuring Stereotyped Mental Representations Of Football Player Positions, Jillian Fisher
Race Logic: Measuring Stereotyped Mental Representations Of Football Player Positions, Jillian Fisher
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This preregistered research sought to capture the mental images associated with the quarterback and wide receiver positions to understand race logic prevalent in the NFL using the two phase, reverse correlation image classification paradigm. Participants in phase one were randomly assigned to the quarterback or wide receiver group and responded to 300 forced choice side by side images, indicating which image appears most like the target position. From these responses, four images were created based on position (quarterback or wide receiver) and participant exposure to football related media content (high or low). These images were used as stimuli in phase …