Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites
Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites
K. Hoffman,Sophie Trawalter,Jordan R. Axt,M. N. Oliver
2016 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516047113
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 1,833 Citations
TLDR
It is shown that a substantial number of white laypeople and medical students and residents hold false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whites and this work demonstrates that these beliefs predict racial bias in pain perception and treatment recommendation accuracy.