Timothy J Pleskac, Joseph Cesario, David J Johnson, Glen Gagnon
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摘要
我们使用了一个沉浸式射击模拟器来研究种族、嫌疑人行为和警务场景如何影响警察的致命武力决定。来自密尔沃基警察局的警官（N = 659）使用真实的手枪反应对动态视频场景做出反应。手无寸铁的黑人嫌疑人比白人嫌疑人更容易被误射，但前提是嫌疑人的行为没有敌意。认知模型显示，这种种族效应不是来自最初的射击偏好，而是来自物体可见后证据积累的差异。情境和嫌疑人行为的总体影响最大，通过改变最初的射击倾向来塑造决策。进一步的分析表明，在特定情况下的可疑行为可能部分解释了观察到的种族效应。这些发现为致命武力决策提供了一个过程层面的解释，将现实世界的复杂性与心理学理论相结合，并为改善警察使用武力的研究和培训提供了一个框架。（PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，版权所有）。
Modeling police officers' deadly force decisions in an immersive shooting simulator.
We used an immersive shooting simulator to examine how race, suspect behavior, and policing scenario shape officers' deadly force decisions. Officers (N = 659) from the Milwaukee Police Department responded to dynamic video scenarios using realistic handgun responses. Mistaken shootings of unarmed Black suspects were more likely than of White suspects, but only when the suspects behaved nonantagonistically. Cognitive modeling showed this race effect arose not from an initial bias to shoot but from differences in evidence accumulation once the object was visible. Scenario and suspect behavior had the largest overall influence, shaping decisions by altering initial proclivity to shoot. Further analysis suggested that suspect behavior within specific scenarios may partially explain observed race effects. These findings provide a process-level account of deadly force decisions, integrating real-world complexity with psychological theory, and offer a framework for improving research and training around police use-of-force. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).
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The mission of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied® is to publish original empirical investigations in experimental psychology that bridge practically oriented problems and psychological theory. The journal also publishes research aimed at developing and testing of models of cognitive processing or behavior in applied situations, including laboratory and field settings. Occasionally, review articles are considered for publication if they contribute significantly to important topics within applied experimental psychology. Areas of interest include applications of perception, attention, memory, decision making, reasoning, information processing, problem solving, learning, and skill acquisition.
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