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Psychologists find unintentional racial biases may affect economic and trust decisions

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Psychologists have found that people may make economic and trust decisions based on unconscious or unintentional racial biases. The study, conducted in the laboratory of NYU professor Elizabeth Phelps, is published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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