Journal article
Seeing racial avoidance on New York City streets
Nature human behaviour, Vol.7(8), pp.1275-1281
08/2023
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-023-01589-7
PMID: 37142689
Abstract
Here, using publicly available traffic camera feeds in combination with a real-world field experiment, we examine how pedestrians of different races behave in the presence of racial out-group members. Across two different New York City neighbourhoods and 3,552 pedestrians, we generate an unobtrusive, large-scale measure of inter-group racial avoidance by measuring the distance individuals maintain between themselves and other racial groups. We find that, on average, pedestrians in our sample (93% of whom were phenotypically non-Black) give a wider berth to Black confederates, as compared with white non-Hispanic confederates.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Seeing racial avoidance on New York City streets
- Creators
- Bryce J Dietrich - Purdue University West LafayetteMelissa L Sands - London School of Economics and Political Science
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nature human behaviour, Vol.7(8), pp.1275-1281
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41562-023-01589-7
- PMID
- 37142689
- NLM abbreviation
- Nat Hum Behav
- ISSN
- 2397-3374
- eISSN
- 2397-3374
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 05/04/2023
- Date published
- 08/2023
- Academic Unit
- Political Science; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984400758402771