Freewrite #2

In their article, "'White Man Can't Jump': Evidence for the Perceptual Confirmation of Racial Stereotypes Following a Basketball Game," Jeff Stone, W. Perry, and John M. Darley. Discuss an experiment in which they attempted to determine whether or not stereotypes were a factor within basketball. They conducted an experiment in which they gave all of the participants a photo of a basketball player and then had them listen to a basketball game on the radio. They were instructed to write down how they thought their particular player performed. They were instructed to judge their athlete based upon the “target's athletic abilities, individual performance, and contribution to his team' s performance. “Results showed that particpants believed that an african american athlete had a more athletic game while the white athletes played a more technical game. According to the authors “The results suggest that participants relied on a stereotype of Black and White athletes to guide their evaluations of the target's abilities and performance.”