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ArticleSocial psychological and personality science2025

Target Weight and Gender Moderate Anti-Black Bias in Pain Perception.

Yanzi Huang, Theresa Miller, Catherine Awad, Patrick Gilbert Mercado Reyes, Aizihaer Tuerxuntuoheti, Peter Mende-Siedlecki

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Yanzi HuangUniversity of Delaware, Newark, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0420-0774
Theresa MillerUniversity of Delaware, Newark, USA.
Catherine AwadUniversity of Delaware, Newark, USA.
Patrick Gilbert Mercado ReyesDuke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Aizihaer TuerxuntuohetiRutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Peter Mende-SiedleckiUniversity of Delaware, Newark, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5761-0182

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Updated confocal microscope in the Imaging Core facility to support biomedical researchP20GM103653 · NIGMS · DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HARRINGTON, MELISSA A · 2012 to 2022
$22.7M
Racial Disparities in Pain Care: A Comprehensive Integration of Patient- and Provider-Level Mechanisms with Dyadic Communication Processes Using a Mixed-Methods Research DesignR01NR020030 · NINR · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI Nao Hagiwara, Peter Mende-Siedlecki · 2022 to 2026
$2.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103653NINR NIH HHS R01 NR020030
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Abstract

Perceivers recognize pain less readily on Black (vs. White) faces in the United States. The present work investigated whether this perceptual bias is moderated by target weight and gender across three experiments. Anti-Black bias in pain perception was mitigated within heavier-weight (vs. average-weight) male-appearing targets (Experiment 1) but was independent of female-appearing targets' weight (Experiment 2). A well-powered, pre-registered Experiment 3 replicated these findings, confirming that target weight and gender interactively shaped anti-Black bias in pain perception: target weight moderated perceptual bias within male-appearing (but not female-appearing) faces. These findings help illuminate factors that interact to shape racial bias in pain perception and demonstrate the importance of intersectionality when studying social perceptual biases.

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intersectionalitypain perceptionracial biassocial inequityweight bias

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PMID41018542
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