Salter Phia S, Kelley Nicholas J, Molina Ludwin E, Thai Luyen T
a Department of Psychology and Africana Studies Program , Texas A&M University , College Station , TX , USA.
b Department of Psychology , Northwestern University , Evanston , IL , USA.
Memory. 2017 Sep;25(8):1139-1147. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1274037. Epub 2017 Jan 16.
Photographs provide critical retrieval cues for personal remembering, but few studies have considered this phenomenon at the collective level. In this research, we examined the psychological consequences of visual attention to the presence (or absence) of racially charged retrieval cues within American racial segregation photographs. We hypothesised that attention to racial retrieval cues embedded in historical photographs would increase social justice concept accessibility. In Study 1, we recorded gaze patterns with an eye-tracker among participants viewing images that contained racial retrieval cues or were digitally manipulated to remove them. In Study 2, we manipulated participants' gaze behaviour by either directing visual attention toward racial retrieval cues, away from racial retrieval cues, or directing attention within photographs where racial retrieval cues were missing. Across Studies 1 and 2, visual attention to racial retrieval cues in photographs documenting historical segregation predicted social justice concept accessibility.
照片为个人记忆提供了关键的检索线索，但很少有研究在集体层面考虑过这一现象。在本研究中，我们考察了在美国种族隔离照片中，视觉关注带有种族色彩的检索线索（或没有此类线索）所产生的心理后果。我们假设，关注历史照片中嵌入的种族检索线索会增加社会正义概念的可及性。在研究1中，我们使用眼动仪记录了参与者观看包含种族检索线索或经数字处理去除这些线索的图像时的注视模式。在研究2中，我们通过将视觉注意力引向种族检索线索、远离种族检索线索或在没有种族检索线索的照片中引导注意力，来操纵参与者的注视行为。在研究1和研究2中，对记录历史隔离的照片中的种族检索线索的视觉关注预示了社会正义概念的可及性。
